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From: Pete Casso <petecassostein@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: update www.xs4all.nl/~klr
Date: 1998/07/19
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Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> 
> Pete Casso <petecassostein@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Martin Atkins wrote:
> >>
> >> .----- On Sat, 18 Jul 1998 09:22:19 GMT, Aziraphael posted:
> >> |
> >> |Actually, the chances of posting in HTML are getting smaller and smaller...
> >> |
> >> |It seems far more likely to me that we'll all be posting in XML (extensible
> >> |Mark-Up language) in a few years time..
> >> |
> >> |Just giving the gears of controversy another turn.. : )
> >> '---------------------
> >>
> >> Oh yes, good old XML...:o)
> >>
> >> I can see a lot of people getting angry about that... and lots of people
> >> converting their old HTML using the XML DTD for HTML and making their
> >> webpages/emails/posts even larger.....
> 
> >I see many postings of gifs and jpegs, they are bigger than even XML but
> >nobody on aaa made any comments recently, they all comment on things that they
> >pretend to ignore  ;-))
> 
> Huh?  "many postings"?  I haven't seen any of those in alt.ascii-art for
> quite some time now except for Mehta's Acidraw.uue post yesterday.

There were about a half dozen sex postings with gifs and jpegs here on aaa in
the past 24 hours.
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> However, GIFs and JPEGs would have to be uuencoded and would be best
> posted to
> 
>    alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
> or
>    alt.ascii-art.animation
> 
> Because both those groups can carry uuencoded material such as Ansi-
> style Ascii animations, executable programs and GIFs, JPGs etc.
> 
> Problem is that propagation of postings in those groups is not good
> because many ISPs refuse to carry them.
> 
> Tell you what...if there were too many uuencoded postings appearing
> in alt.ascii-art some of the readers would scream about them. That's
> how this newsgroup regulates itself and yet remains free and
> unmoderated.
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> Bye,