X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1fad4f95cb6b8d80 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-23 14:43:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: cerulli@dm.unipi.it (Michele Cerulli) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: what is this newsgroup about ? Date: 23 Sep 2002 14:43:57 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <9p4uouo0g6itqtfkstfil0o78btna04mvc@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.27.41.246 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1032817437 11767 127.0.0.1 (23 Sep 2002 21:43:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Sep 2002 21:43:57 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:19646 Martti Roitto wrote in message news:<9p4uouo0g6itqtfkstfil0o78btna04mvc@4ax.com>... > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:59:53 +0200, Braddy 33 > wrote: > > >Can you please tell me what is this newsgroup about ? > >Please follow up to my email cause I've not subscribed to this list ! > > First of all, do not ask people to reply to your email. If you post to > newsgroups, read the answers from the newsgroups. This is the way > things are. > > This group is about ASCII Art, fetch the FAQ somewhere in the group > (I'm too lazy to find it right now)... > > ASCII art is art done by arranging different ASCII characters (that > is, character codes 0-127 if I reckon correctly.) > > For example, here is an ASCII square. > > .----. > | | > | | > '----' mrz Square? ... o well \\\\ .----. (o O) | | What about this one? \)U(' |____| mc /-\ (That's better MC, that's better!) \ .// (Oo) (-( tt mc Bye bye, Michele http://www-studenti.dm.unipi.it/~cerulli/ascii/my.html