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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Sep 2001.
Re: FAQ: New to ASCII art? Read me first!

Re: FAQ: New to ASCII art? Read me first!

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 06:23:50 +0100, "David Palmer"
<dav...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>   * 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).

Maybe not a line starting with a '.' as some misconfigured newsreaders
or news servers may either (a) think that line is the end of the post,
or (b) add another dot in front of it. Commas are fine.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nos...@gmx.li>
That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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From: Philip Newton <pne...@newton.digitalspace.net>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: FAQ: New to ASCII art? Read me first!
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 06:45:42 +0200
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