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o Familiarize yourself with newsgroups, their customs, terminology
and abbreviations. Check out the guidelines, posted in the
newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.newusers.questions.
One exception to the usual rules is the use of sigs. Because the
groups rec.arts.ascii, alt.ascii-art and alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
are about ASCII art, it is within the scope of these groups to post
longer sigs.
Be an Art Detective.
Let's say you're reading another group, say, rec.nonsense, and
while reading the posts, you see a pic or sig. You would like an
easy way to show it to us on rec.arts.ascii, without saving it,
quiting from rec.nonsense, going to rec.arts.ascii, starting a post,
inserting the pic or sig, quiting your newsreader, deleting it, etc.
It's easy to be an Art Detective. While in the original newsgroup:
o Follow-up the article, making sure it is quoted.
o Replace any newsgroups named in the "Newsgroups:" with "rec.arts.ascii".
o Delete all extraneous materials from the post, leaving the pic or sig.
o Add any commentary you think appropriate.
o Send it.
26 Where is this FAQ available?
Tha FAQ is available from newsgroups, FTP, Gopher, WWW, finger:
o Newsgroups:
rec.arts.ascii,
alt.ascii-art, alt.binaries.pictures.ascii, alt.ascii-art.animation
comp.graphics, news.answers, alt.answers, rec.answers, comp.answers
o FTP Sites:
-> Host: ftp.wwa.com
Path: pub/Scarecrow
File: FAQ
URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/FAQ
-> Host: rtfm.mit.edu
Path: pub/usenet-by-group/rec.arts.ascii
File: FAQ_-_ASCII_Art_Questions_&_Answers_(*.*_-_*_K)
URL: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/rec.arts.ascii
-> Host: src.doc.ic.ac.uk
Path: pub/usenet/news.answers/rec.arts.ascii
File: FAQ_-_ASCII_Art_Questions_&_Answers_(*.*_-_*_K)
URL: ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/usenet/news.answers/rec.arts.ascii
o Gopher Servers:
-> Hast: gopher.wwa.com
Items: 3, 3
-> Hast: jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
Items: 10, 12, 1
-> Host: cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
Items: 3, 3, 858
o World Wide Web:
-> URL: http://miso.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html
Select: ASCII ART FAQ (this file)
Select: ASCII Art Resources (text version with samples of everything)
Select: ASCII Art Reference (Web version with links to everything)
o Finger by typing the following at a prompt on mony sites:
finger asciifaq@wwa.com (turn on text capture first)
OR
finger asciifaq@wwa.com | more (you can read it a page at a time)
OR
finger asciifaq@wwa.com > faq (saves it to a file called 'faq')
27 Who made this FAQ?
It is made by your old friend, the Scarecrow. Materials for the
ASCII ART FAQ, ASCII Art Resources and ASCII Art Reference (the Web
version of the FAQ) were gratefully received from the following nice
people: