Some ascii art newsgroups:




alt.ascii-art       Very nice place! This is _THE_ newsgroup for "pure" ascii art.

( rec.arts.ascii    Moderated version of alt.ascii-art. Unfortunately it's dead)

alt.ascii-art.animation
                    This is where you discuss any form of animated ascii art.

alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
                    Not much traffic there.

pl.rec.ascii-art    Polish ascii art newsgroup.
                    (And here's a Polish/English translator:
                     http://www.tranexp.com/InterTran.cgi  )

tw.bbs.literal.asciiart
                    There seems to be a lot of discussion there, but I haven't
                    yet managed to get my news reader to present it properly.