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           The mailers affected are:-   
               Mozilla Mail (including Thunderbird)   
               M2 (the Opera mail program),  Eudora 4.2 and later,   
               Microsoft Hotmail,  Apple Mail,  Pine 4.61 and later.   
           Also the 'quote' functions are a hazzard when viewing Ascii Art.   
      
       *   Have you used any TAB characters or Control Codes?   
           Inserting control codes (ASCII characters 0 to 31) in a picture   
           can sometimes achieve interesting effect on your computer screen   
           or news reader, such as reversing text or changing its colour.   
           DO NOT post any of these pictures to news:alt.ascii-art, post to   
           news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii instead for two reasons:-   
      
           1.  the effects that the control codes have on your news reader   
               are almost certainly going to be  different  from those on   
               the thousands of other news readers that other people use   
      
           2.  on some news readers, control codes can cause  messed up   
               displays, messages not appearing, or (in some cases) the   
               news reader crashing.   
      
       If you're not sure about whether your message will turn out ok,   
       post it to a test group (such as news:alt.test or news:misc.test)   
       first and make sure that you can read it ok, also using a different   
       newsreader, if you can.   
      
       [See Question 10 for advice on posting someone else's ASCII art.]   
      
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   [13]  What to NOT post to alt.ascii-art? [da roolz]   
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   [13.1]            ASCII art is a very simple medium.   
      
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        /   \_\ \/ /      should NOT be posted to          \ \/ /_/   \   
       |   D_ ]\ \/         the Usenet groups:-             \/ /[ _G   |   
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        mark (_.)(._)  news:alt.ascii-art.animation       (_.)(._) JavE   
                       news:alt.ascii-art.endless.blabla   
      
                       news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii   
      
           NOTE: alt.binaries.pictures.ascii supports posting of ASCII   
               software tools or fonts (in ZIP format) and binary images   
               of ASCII or other FontSet (in GIF format) and any other   
               ASCII art related material, but no Spam, in relation to   
               discussions in the alt.ascii-art newsgroups.   
               Use the subject header: [abpa] for easy identification.   
      
                         -= List of Items =-   
      
       *   Binaries, Trojans, Zombies, Virus, Spam.   
      
       *   ANSI,`extended ASCII' or `high ASCII', and non-Western font art.   
           Post it to news:rec.arts.ascii (see Section[13.2]).   
           Many computer systems have an extended character set of 256 or   
           more characters, based on the ANSI, Unicode or BIG5 character   
           sets and having the first 128 characters possibly identical to   
           ASCII. These characters should not be sent to news:alt.ascii-art   
           because many computer system types do not display them properly,   
           even those that do, do not display them in a standard way, for   
           example, the Windows ANSI character set is different to the   
           Macintosh ANSI character set. Capture and send a GIF of it to   
           news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii or put it on a Web page and   
           post a reference to it to news:alt.ascii-art.   
      
       *   HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which Web pages are written in   
           can be read by some Usenet readers, particularly those built-in   
           to Web browsers, allowing colours and animations in ASCII art,   
           however, few newsreaders support it and to many appears as a   
           jumble of  and are totally unrecognizable,   
           If you have a picture which uses HTML for a particular feature   
           such as colors or animation, put it on a Web page and post   
           the URL address of the page to news:alt.ascii-art.   
      
       *   JAVA, JavaScript, Flash, GIF or whatever animated ASCII art.   
           This relies, not only on the newsreader being able to display   
           HTML, but also being able to run Java or JavaScript.   
           Put it on a Web page and post the URL address to   
           news:alt.ascii-art.animation and news:alt.ascii-art   
      
       *   Proportional Font ASCII art screws up on many readers' displays   
           Post it to news:rec.arts.ascii (see Section[13.2]).   
           Send a GIF of it to  news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii or put it   
           on a Web page and post a reference to it to news:alt.ascii-art   
      
       Finally, do not use any control codes, non-ASCII characters,   
       or word-processor-type formatting in your postings. These are   
       particular to your editor or computer system they will almost   
       certainly not have the intended effect on the systems the rest   
       of us use (they may even crash some Usenet readers).   
      
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   [13.2]  What can I post to rec.arts.ascii?   
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       The official charter for rec.arts.ascii, as sent in the newsgroup   
       control message, is:   
      
         The group news:rec.arts.ascii will be an appropriate group for   
         postings to include, but not be limited to, the following:   
      
         o  All forms of ASCII art including, but not limited to:   
            -  Standard ASCII art.   
            -  Animations.   
            -  ANSI color graphics.   
         o  Discussion about pieces of art.   
         o  Requests for specific pieces of art, and their fulfilment.   
         o  Questions and answers covering:   
            -  Creating and viewing ASCII art.   
            -  Locating FTP sites for ASCII art and related files.   
         o  Discussion about artists in the field.   
      
       rec.arts.ascii is a moderated group meaning that all posts are   
       reviewed before being sent to the group. That work is done by a   
       robo-moderator which filters Spam and checks the posts have the   
       correct format before approving them.  It can also target a   
       specific poster's traffic for human moderator approval.   
      
       Subjects must be tagged either:   
       [PIC] for pictures   
       [REQ] for requests for others to draw pictures   
             (people replying with pictures change the tag to [PIC])   
       [DIS] for general ascii art related discussion and replies.   
       [ADMIN] for the moderator to post important information.   
      
       >>  NOTE: Please read:-   
             http://www.drabble.me.uk/usenet/raa.shtml  (guidelines.txt)   
       >>  for concise up-to-date list of permitted subject tags   
       >>  and usage before posting.   
      
       The robo-mod also checks that the posts are in PLAIN TEXT only,   
       that line length is set to LESS than 80 characters UNLESS the   
       phrase [long lines] is in the BODY of the post, when the LIMIT   
       is then raised to 200 characters.   
      
       Cross-posting is permitted provided that:   
         o - it is to no more than three groups   
      
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