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From: Veronica Karlsson <e93-vkn@nospam.sm.luth.se>
Subject: Re: ascii art for email and much more! (was: Copyright Notice,
 blah blah blah)
Date: 1997/09/04
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Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking
 several spammers out of their accounts)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art


Spunk1111 wrote:
> 
> In article <19970902223700.SAA28969@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
> petecasso@aol.com (PeteCasso) writes:
> >So why do you have such a big hangup against developing ascii further,
> >commensurate with the transmission capabilities of email/newsgroup/web? Is
> >the hangup just because of the words in a standard that originated in
> >pre-Internet days?
> 
> Oh, where is Dan Strychalski?  ASCII is ASCII--  if you develop ASCII any
> further, it is no longer ASCII.  The beauty of ASCII art is its simplicity and
> it's ability to work on all computer systems.
> 
> When you start adding html, gifs, jpgs, animation, and the like, it is no
> longer ASCII at it's finest.  Period.

Lovely piece of art Joan! So well said! :-)  (though I doubt PC will
understand it :-/ )

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )