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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Clark Kent told me that Lex <minyee@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>i've noticed some postings that began with line:
>
>eg line: planets
>
>what's a line?

   "Line" is a Subject ID that indicates the contents of the post is
standard ASCII line art (ie, not a GIF conversion, animation, color pic,
question, FAQ, FIglet font, etc.).

   Here is the current list of Subject IDs:

     Line - Standard ASCII line art.  Line pictures and large lettering.
      GIF - Gray scale image.
Animation - Animation.  Usually uuencoded.
    Color - ANSI Color image.  Usually uuencoded.
      3-D - Three dimensional art.
     Font - Alphabets and Figlet fonts.
   Binary - Binaries (software like Figlet and Gifscii).  Usually uuencoded.
      Big - Wider than 80 columns and-or longer than 24 lines).

   Repost - Repost of a previously posted pic, not new art.
  Request - Request for a picture, Figletized name, sig, etc.

     Talk - General discussion, no pics included.
 Question - A question concerning any of the ASCII art topics.
   Answer - An answer to a question asked by a poster.
     Info - Web URLs, email addresses, Gopher and FTP sites, font lists, etc.
 Announce - Announcements of events, new sites, Web pagse, etc.

      FAQ - Used for the weekly posting of Frequently Asked Questions


   Please use them.  It makes it much easier to use a thread selector in a
newsreader like trn.  It's nice to have the subject line reflect the
contents of the post.  Also, if you use Subject IDs, it's also good to
change the subject line when following up a post, so the change in the
post's contents is reflected in the subject line.

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