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From: llizard <llizard@iNOdirect.ca>
Subject: Re: Work in progress: ASCII art FAQ 3.0.-2
Date: 1999/03/31
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In article <37013c3c.11827873@news.vossnet.net>, zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz
(Martin Atkins) wrote:
> 
> .----- On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:20:48 +1200, Matthew Thomas posted:
[snip]
> |llizard wrote:
> |>
> |> Things look fine to me so far. I have only one minor point (an html
> |> issue). I recently found out that for linking to a newsgroup, one must
> |> include the two slashes after the colon.
> |>
> |> <A HREF="news://alt.ascii-art">alt.ascii-art</a>
> |
> |Oh No One Mustn't! That's not for *groups*, that's for *servers*.
> |When you are referring to a group on a specific NNTP server, you use the
> |slashes -- for example, news://news.canterbury.ac.nz/alt.ascii-art. But
> |if you're referring to a widely propagated group which you can
> |reasonably expect to be hosted on any NNTP server, you just put news:alt.ascii-art.
> '--------------------------
> Well, I was half right in my reply to this in another thread above. ;o)

Okay okay okay!!!  How many times must I apologize for this terrible
gaff? 

Once again, I humbly beg your collective pardons. I now stand corrected
and promise that I will never again put my oar in where it doesn't
belong.


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