Dave Plowman
[...]use a fixed font for ASCII art[...]
News Reader wrote:
Rendering in a text only (non-html or "Font" rendering) mode
should ensure the ASCII art renders correctly
Wanna bet?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.e...8?dmode=source
Just do ASCII art in Notepad and paste *that* into your post.
....and as has been alluded to,
Outbreaks In Excess is the WORST choice for posting to Usenet
--for this and other reasons.
(Apparently you either format blockquoting by hand or
have done the 3rd-party update to make M$'s junk suck a bit less.)