Subj : Re: JoesBBS Mid-Week Ad
To   : IB Joe
From : Codefenix
Date : Thu Feb 24 2022 09:36 pm

  Re: Re: JoesBBS Mid-Week Ad
  By: IB Joe to MRO on Thu Feb 24 2022 05:41 am

 MR>> you should take the clear screen out of your ad
 MR>> ---
 IJ> I didn't know there was one in there.. I have ran the same ad for years...
 IJ> and now someone somewhere says I have a clear screen in my ad... 
 IJ> I create the ANSI file on the fly with a batch file... I echo in the date
 IJ> and then I follow up with the body of the message... I see no clear screen
 IJ> maybe Mystic tacks it in somewhere or somehow... 
 IJ> BUT it would be better if you configured your software to deal with it..

It's good advice to know what's in your message before you post it.

You never know how an ANSI message is going to look posted on various networked
boards. You might think it looks OK on your board, but it may look garbled on
everyone else's.

This is specifically why I began shifting all my ads to ASCII.

---
 þ Synchronet þ -=[ conchaos.synchro.net | ConstructiveChaos BBS ]=-

.