X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,dd0eb3209e8c9e7b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-20 15:45:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.siscom.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B3129D5.1EDBD0FF@netscape.net> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:55:17 -0400 From: deck X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16.artcontext i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: New ASCII Arts Webring Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Acecape, Inc. Cache-Post-Path: zver!unknown@p162-111.acedsl.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 160.79.54.35 X-Trace: 993077112 news.siscom.net 14534 160.79.54.35 X-Complaints-To: abuse@siscom.net Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6313 Since Yahoo! took over the ASCII Art Ring, they've begun using it to promote themselves. Their interface design is ugly, their navigator isn't exclusively ASCII, and there are advertisements. Since decentralization was one of the goals of Web Rings when they originally became popular, I took it upon myself to write software to support a web ring to replace the ASCII Art Ring. If you have a site featuring ASCII art, I encourage you to register and join this new ring. http://artcode.org/ascii/ andy PS The interface design is ASCII-only, and is Lynx compatible.