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From: Harry Mason <spam@no.spam>
Subject: Re: Bird thing flying over a town
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core_dump <coredump@coreNOSPAMdumpcentral.org> wrote:

Be careful! Your message had a few tabs in, which broke the picture a bit in
my newsreader. Tabs don't have a standard width; you should stick to spaces
only.

[unmunged]
>                ....
>               (,(.))
>     ^^^^^^    (,,,,)\
>     \\\\\\\   (,,,,)7
>     _\.\.\.\__/////
>    |::\\.\.\\ :::/
>   |::::\.\.\.|::/
>  |::::::\____/:/
>  \____________/
>      \   \       
>        \   \    
>        \\\ \\\     
>    
> 
>    /===*==\|  /--\|
>    |   |   | ///\\\
>    |...|...| |----|
>    |   |   | |.  .|
>    | []| []| | [] |
> ________________________

> Note: I am new to this newsgroup and this is my first ASCII art. What do 
> you think?

Judging by the size of that bird, you should add some townspeople fleeing in
horror. :)

Diddle:

                                   ...                     ______
                                  (<.\)               __  (      )
                       ^^^^^^    (,,,,,`-----\ ___() (__) (____)_)
                   ^^^\\\\\\\\   (,,,,_,-----7
                    \.\.\.\.\.\__/////
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       <._--._`--'.:: <_\.\.\.\.|::/
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______|\___________________________________
Scene from "The Hobbit"

> Another note: I've never done ASCII art before, but I have done basic ANSI 
> stuff for myself, I guess you don't do ANSI art in this newsgroup, do you 
> know of a newsgroup that does?

The problem with ANSI art is that many people don't have a way to view it.
If you want to make coloured text art, HTML is probably the best way - but
don't post HTML to this group; upload it and post the URL.

-- 
Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)