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change a few characters, make it a bit better, and re-post it.

HOWEVER, there are a few things you should check before you
post to news:alt.ascii-art any piece of ASCII art
(see also Question 13).

* Are you sending it as PLAIN TEXT? Some news programs,
particularly those built in to Web browsers, read and write
messages in HTML (HyperText Markup Language, the language which
Web pages are written in). HTML allows colours and (using
JavaScript) animations in ASCII art, but few newsreaders
support it, and those which don't will show a whole lot of
garbage text with your picture hidden inside it.

So if you have one of these HTML-sending programs, then select
the option which tells it to send messages as PLAIN TEXT only
and turn off "send MIME message".

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 of the page to alt.ascii-art

* Is it under 72 characters wide? Most news readers can only show
lines which are under either 72, 76, or 80 characters wide, so
if your picture is wider than 72 characters it may get wrapped
[see Question 4]. Also remove any unnecessary space characters
from the end of each line of the picture, to prevent lines from
being too long (and getting wrapped) without your realizing.

* If it IS over 72 characters wide?
Then a warning in the subject line [wide:110] or whatever the
original picture width and Check Your Post Output Line-Wrap
settings. [for Outlook see Question 19]
Previous versions of this FAQ used a system to prefix posts
such as: [pic] [info] [req] [big] which may be used as a guide
when providing warnings.

* 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 your first line starts with one or more spaces, stick a
dummy line (such as -- or .) above it, to prevent the spaces
from being ignored by your news program (this only applies to
some news programs, and only to the first line of the
message).

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 (using a different newsreader, if you can) that
you can read it ok.

[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.
_ _ _ _
___ (~ )( ~) The following List of Items (~ )( ~) ___
/ \_\ \/ / should NOT be posted to \ \/ /_/ \
\| D_ ]\ \/ the Usenet groups:- \/ /[ _G \|
\| D _]/\ \ / /\[_ G \|
\___/ / /\ \ news:alt.ascii-art / /\ \ \___/
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.

-= List of Items =-

* Binaries, Trojans, Zombies, Virus, Spam.

* ANSI,`extended ASCII' or `high ASCII', and non-Western font art.
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

change a few characters, make it a bit better, and re-post it.

HOWEVER, there are a few things you should check before you

post to news:alt.ascii-art any piece of ASCII art

(see also Question 13).

* Are you sending it as PLAIN TEXT? Some news programs,

particularly those built in to Web browsers, read and write

messages in HTML (HyperText Markup Language, the language which

Web pages are written in). HTML allows colours and (using

JavaScript) animations in ASCII art, but few newsreaders

support it, and those which don't will show a whole lot of

garbage text with your picture hidden inside it.

So if you have one of these HTML-sending programs, then select

the option which tells it to send messages as PLAIN TEXT only

and turn off "send MIME message".

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 of the page to alt.ascii-art

* Is it under 72 characters wide? Most news readers can only show

lines which are under either 72, 76, or 80 characters wide, so

if your picture is wider than 72 characters it may get wrapped

[see Question 4]. Also remove any unnecessary space characters

from the end of each line of the picture, to prevent lines from

being too long (and getting wrapped) without your realizing.

* If it IS over 72 characters wide?

Then a warning in the subject line [wide:110] or whatever the

original picture width and Check Your Post Output Line-Wrap

settings. [for Outlook see Question 19]

Previous versions of this FAQ used a system to prefix posts

such as: [pic] [info] [req] [big] which may be used as a guide

when providing warnings.

* 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 your first line starts with one or more spaces, stick a

dummy line (such as -- or .) above it, to prevent the spaces

from being ignored by your news program (this only applies to

some news programs, and only to the first line of the

message).

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 (using a different newsreader, if you can) that

you can read it ok.

[See Question 10 for advice on posting someone else's ASCII art.]

========================================================================

[13] What to NOT post to alt.ascii-art? [da roolz]

========================================================================

[13.1] ASCII art is a very simple medium.

_ _ _ _

___ (~ )( ~) The following List of Items (~ )( ~) ___

/ \_\ \/ / should NOT be posted to \ \/ /_/ \

| D_ ]\ \/ the Usenet groups:- \/ /[ _G |

| D _]/\ \ / /\[_ G |

\___/ / /\ \ news:alt.ascii-art / /\ \ \___/

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.

-= List of Items =-

* Binaries, Trojans, Zombies, Virus, Spam.

* ANSI,`extended ASCII' or `high ASCII', and non-Western font art.

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