Hello George
I was going to respond in much the same manner, then I saw that on
01-May-00, George \"Furr\" Madison wrote:
> b) said codes fouled up much text-to-speech software,
> which people with impaired vision depend(ed) on to be
> able to participate in IRC. (And this effect would more
> likely have been noticed before the "standard" was set
> had it been set up like a real standard, instead of as an
> expression of Khaled's ego.) I know this as fact because
> I have several blind friends who had to give up IRC for
> some time because of this issue.
I have lots of friends who use IRC Clients that also have trouble with the
colour codes. (It is a bit tough to read, even manually)
> c) the fact that all too many people do NOT use these
> codes in anything resembling a responsible manner to
> highlight small items, but instead to blat large pieces
> of colored ASCII "art" into channels where people are
> trying to... gee, *CHAT*... about whatever.
Definitely...way too many scripts do the flooding with ASCII art
> I have AmIRC set to strip color codes, and I do not use them
> myself. In channels where I have ops privilege, people who abuse
> color get a warning and then they get kicked. (Of course, in some
> cases just the ASCII art alone deserves a kick for flooding.)
I agree completely, and that usually happens in all the channels I frequent.
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