Totally Borked Sig (was February Ballot)

Gregory Hall wrote:
> "Veronica Karlsson" wrote:
> > Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> >> metro-golden-meower wrote:
[...]
> >> > as soon as i found out, all those years ago, that if you used a fixed
> >> > pitch font, usenet took on a whole new fun picture
> >> > filled meaning.
> >>
> >> > can anyone say meow sig?
> >>
> >> > [snip of beautiful sig that google would just destroy if I tried to
> >> > post it]
> >>
> >> Meow sig!
> >>
> >> *purr*
> >
> > http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/meowmixlogo.txt
>
> That one needs a proportional font like 'Terminal' probably because it was
> created using a proportional font.
>
> The problem seems to be there is no standard for creating ascii. I've seen
> them created using Arial, for example that look just fine but try to display
> them in a proportional font and they appear way too wide.

Please, read the ascii art FAQ, before continuing this discussion:

http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/faq.html

and if that doesn't make anything any clearer to you, I have a
collection of old FAQs too:

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/junkyard/techstuff/FAQ/

(basically the same material, explained by different authors)

> Where's the standard?  As for Google Groups, where's the standard. Google is
> good for archival purposes only.

google sucks.