X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,8a151a532edf707c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,8a151a532edf707c X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan) Subject: Re: WARNING: Control Codes Date: 1998/11/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 408719278 References: <910202394.741761@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <910252004.833095@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Face: &@UA7$)=n9C7!qu%-5s},3tR@NEy+B>8PW"^,8?A>%."0{J2c1Yr]NKw';5/( J\r@/{UADjCdE~iRnOEOfbre(/1Y=$TS3Wt7B`a4sz,, Colin Douthwaite wrote: >Greg Berigan wrote: >>Colin Douthwaite wrote: >>> The only Ascii characters which should be posted and used in Ascii >>> Art are: >>> Decimal characters 32 to 127. > ^^^ >> 126, not 127. You clarify later, but this should be changed. >> >> And a tiny nit: it's ASCII, not Ascii. > Gee, I get really brassed off trying to do anything positive in this > newsgroup at times. Why bother? > > Why the blue blazes does _anyone_ bother to write and maintain FAQs > etc. with all the negative attitudes that get shown here? > > It's so easy, cheap, and nasty, and popular to just Piss in the Soup! Sheesh, just try to offer a tiny correction to improve a ASCII-art FAQ and someone BYTES your head off. I guess I should have included: __ ___________ __ /_/\/_/_______\_\/\_\ \ \/\ \__ __/ /\/ / \ __ \ | | / __ / \_\/\_\|_|/_/\/_/ gberigan@cse.unl.edu, 1989 / /_/ /| |\ \_\ \ / __ /_| |_\ __ \ /_/ /_/_______\_\ \_\ My fault in assuming others would understand I was just trying to be helpful. Might as well give up trying to help anyone if all I get is grief and scorn. -- ,= (The War of the Worlds) ,_--//\\_, _-~_-(####()_~-_ "Did you see that Parkins boy's body in the tunnels?" "Just (#>_--'~--~`--_<#) the photos. Worst thing I've ever seen; kid had no face."