X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,9a2afb98545e1d18 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,9a2afb98545e1d18 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "mcclure111" Subject: Re: WARNING: Control Codes Date: 1997/05/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 241369511 References: <3377F9FB.2F6@online.no> X-Newsgroups-TO: nntp://news.earthlink.net/alt.ascii-art, nntp://news.earthlink.net/alt.ascii-art.animation Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. X-News-Servers: news.earthlink.net Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation far be it from me to get into a screaming argument with internet purists without completely knowing what i'm talking about, but... >Colin has been here since the start, and he has posted the >FAQ, WARNING:Control Codes, TUTORIAL and POINTER=>Ascii Art Sites well, who cares? unless he's God or the server sysop or something, that doesn't automatically mean he can tell the entire internet what to do. >> >This message is being reposted frequently because many newcomers >> >to the Net do not seem to know the problems caused by Control Codes. >Oh you puny mortal!! >This is one the of the regular postings here! >Cant' you read??????? >Also known as one of the FAQ's uh, huh.. right.. fine.. WE STILL _DON'T_ KNOW ABOUT THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY CONTROL CODES. No one has bothered to tell us what they are. you ignored the most important line: >>>PLEASE do *NOT* post Colour, Color, Control Codes or Animation Codes >>>to ASCII-ART newsgroups - or indeed ANY Internet newsgroup. >> >>And why the hell not? and the answer is...? go ahead, enlighten me. anyway, the original 'FAQ' was posted to alt.pictures.binaries.ascii. I thought various codes were the entire reason they set up the .binaries groups? so people who wanted to post codes would have somewhere to do so. -mcclure111 just making things worse _______ / \ | / / / / | o