This is a test

[colin randall]

hi ... sorry folks but its gotta be done ...
i'm just plumbing the depths of google's cluelessness
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[Eli the Bearded]

In alt.ascii-art.animation,

colin randall <colin.r...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hi ... sorry folks but its gotta be done ...
> i'm just plumbing the depths of google's cluelessness

I'm not reading on Google and it came through fine.

> . _____ _ _ _ ___ _ ___ _ _____ ___ ___ _____
> |_ _| | |_| | (_) / __) (_) / __) /_\ |_ _| | __| / __) |_ _|
> | | | _ | | | \__ \ | | \__ \ / \ | | | _| \__ \ | |
> |_| |_| |_| |_| (___/ |_| (___/ \_|_/ |_| |___| (___/ |_|
> .
> :::::_____:::_:::_:::_:::___:::::_:::___::::::_:::::_____:::___:::___:::_____
> ::::|_:::_|:|:|_|:|:(_):/:__):::(_):/:__)::::/_\:::|_:::_|:|:__|:/:__):|_:::_|
> ::::::|:|:::|::_::|:|:|:\__:\:::|:|:\__:\:::/:::\::::|:|:::|:_|::\__:\:::|:|
> ::::::|_|:::|_|:|_|:|_|:(___/:::|_|:(___/:::\_|_/::::|_|:::|___|:(___/:::|_|
> .

The top is easier to read on my screen, but I can see the letters in the
bottom one, too.

Elijah
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long time since there has been a post in this group

[colin randall]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 9:36:08 PM UTC, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In alt.ascii-art.animation,
> colin randall <colin.r...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > hi ... sorry folks but its gotta be done ...
> > i'm just plumbing the depths of google's cluelessness
> I'm not reading on Google and it came through fine.

[snip]

> > .
> The top is easier to read on my screen, but I can see the letters in the
> bottom one, too.
>
> Elijah
> ------
> long time since there has been a post in this group

hi ... thanks for the info
the bottom one is readable if i set firefox to disallow pages to set
their own fonts ... the top one is "smushed" tho'
i have updated the FAQ to reflect this as follows:
[part of Q.5 : which font use?]
Using Google-Groups from a web-browser => F O R G E T I T!
Google-Groups forces users to use a browser-app to view postings
but then serves-up the posts as an 'html-blob' having pre-processed
the messages using a library called 'XML XSLT' <xsl:strip-space>
which changes all white-space content.
A whitespace character can be any of: space character, tab,
carriage return, new line, vertical tab, form feed.
Carriage return characters are replaced with <br> elements.
All mulitple space characters are compressed to one space so all
preformatted text is C O M P L E T E L Y T R A S H E D !
This renders Google-Groups useless for ascii-art so to be safe
boycot Google-Groups.
[part end]
however ... i still post the FAQ thru' them due to its size at 55k
a bit of a heavy-weight
i'm considering revising or removing Q.20 m$.outlook-express settings
since it is now depreciated (dead) product
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cjr

[Daniel]

colin randall <colin.r...@googlemail.com> writes:

> hi ... sorry folks but its gotta be done ...
> i'm just plumbing the depths of google's cluelessness
> .
> . _____ _ _ _ ___ _ ___ _ _____ ___ ___ _____
> |_ _| | |_| | (_) / __) (_) / __) /_\ |_ _| | __| / __) |_ _|
> | | | _ | | | \__ \ | | \__ \ / \ | | | _| \__ \ | |
> |_| |_| |_| |_| (___/ |_| (___/ \_|_/ |_| |___| (___/ |_|
> .
> :::::_____:::_:::_:::_:::___:::::_:::___::::::_:::::_____:::___:::___:::_____
> ::::|_:::_|:|:|_|:|:(_):/:__):::(_):/:__)::::/_\:::|_:::_|:|:__|:/:__):|_:::_|
> ::::::|:|:::|::_::|:|:|:\__:\:::|:|:\__:\:::/:::\::::|:|:::|:_|::\__:\:::|:|
> ::::::|_|:::|_|:|_|:|_|:(___/:::|_|:(___/:::\_|_/::::|_|:::|___|:(___/:::|_|
> .
> .

Looks good to me on emacs|gnus

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Daniel
Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world

[colin randall]

hi Daniel ... this is what it looks like thru' googlegroups for
new messages
(i use thunderbird on m$.win10 to read usenet but post thru' google)

Curiously tho' ... a couple of months ago i did a search for an article
in the 'deja-news archive' (which is now owned by google) and it
wasn't as messed-up as the above shows
yep ... they'd removed leading spaces but not compressed others
and ... replaced line-terminators with a 'token'
so a quick search'n'replace of the line-terminators and realigning
the leading edge was relatively easy (moslty due to it being like a
regular shape) ... looks like one of those 'endless knot' pics
.
_e_
_dP"9b_
_dP" "9b_
_dP" "9b_
_dP" "9b_
8888888888888888888 8888888888888888888
88 _dP" 88 88 "9b_ 88
88 "9b_ 88 88 _dP" 88
88 _ "9b_ 88 88 _dP" _ 88
88_d8b_ "9b_ 88 88 _dP" _d8b_88
88P" "9b_ "9b88 88dP" _dP" "988
_d88 "9b_ "98 8P" _dP" 88b_
_dP"88 "9b_ " " _dP" 88"9b_
_dP" 8888888888888b_ _d8888888888888 "9b_
_dP" "9b_
"9b_ _dP"
"9b_ 8888888888888P" "98888888888888 _dP"
"9b_88 _dP" "9b_ 88_dP"
"988 _dP" _d b_ "9b_ 88P"
88b_ _dP" _d88 88b_ "9b_ _d88
88"98P" _dP"88 88"9b_ "98P"88
88 " _dP" 88 88 "9b_ " 88
88 _dP" 88 88 "9b_ 88
88 "9b_ 88 88 _dP" 88
8888888888888888888 8888888888888888888
"9b_ _dP"
Chaos Arrow "9b_ _dP"
by Alan De Smet "9b_ _dP"
"98P"
"
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[Eli the Bearded]

In alt.ascii-art.animation,

BTW, alt.ascii-art is a better place for this content, since it does not
animate and gets more traffic. I've crossposted there.

If you do want animation, and have a C compiler, look here:

https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat

I'll gladly take additional animations if you have them.

colin randall <colin.r...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Curiously tho' ... a couple of months ago i did a search for an article
> in the 'deja-news archive' (which is now owned by google) and it
> wasn't as messed-up as the above shows
> yep ... they'd removed leading spaces but not compressed others
> and ... replaced line-terminators with a 'token'

HTML is not inheritantly ASCII art friendly, and it shows.

That's a good looking figure.

Elijah
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VT100 animations are _very_ much not HTML friendly