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  • Re: Dave's BBS

    From David Smith@454:1/110 to Barry Martin on Tue May 31 16:08:29 2022
    ANSI is only allowed in the ANSI conference. ...And now you made me violate the rule with the reset command! <sigh><g>


    Doop! Sorry about that! :) I saw something about advertising so I dug out one of those ANSI editors and decided to give it a try! :)

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to David Smith on Wed Jun 1 06:25:00 2022

    Hi Dave!

    ANSI is only allowed in the ANSI conference. ...And now you made me violate the rule with the reset command! <sigh><g>

    Doop! Sorry about that! :) I saw something about advertising so I
    dug out one of those ANSI editors and decided to give it a try!
    :)

    That's OK -- one of the rules of advertising to to make your message
    stand out and so something besides plain text makes sense.



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  • From David Smith@454:1/110 to Barry Martin on Fri Jun 3 19:39:50 2022
    That's OK -- one of the rules of advertising to to make your message stand out and so something besides plain text makes sense.

    I had seen some folks posting ads on one of my other networks and they were doing the fancey ANSI stuff so I just gave it a try. I had posted it there then when I was scanning through the different conferences posted it here as well. :)

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to David Smith on Sat Jun 4 06:53:00 2022

    Hi Dave!

    That's OK -- one of the rules of advertising to to make your message
    stand out and so something besides plain text makes sense.
    I had seen some folks posting ads on one of my other networks and
    they were doing the fancey ANSI stuff so I just gave it a try. I
    had posted it there then when I was scanning through the
    different conferences posted it here as well. :)

    Makes sense. Here on ILink the idea was to restrict ANSI to the one conference specifically where the artwork was allowed to minimize the possibility of ANSI bombs. I personally didn't have any problems
    elsewhere other than one person's signature would throw my printer (DEC
    LA50) into graphics mode: would print his message fine, the next message
    was like hieroglyphics. (There was a print utility available which I
    used to substitute the character to a space to solve the problem.)


    ... Read messages, not taglines

    But that takes too much time!


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