ASCII art spam

Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com
Tue Apr 12 10:51:01 CDT 2005


Spammers have "invented" ASCII art.

There's three curious things about this. One, it of course gets
through text-matching filters.  Two, it retroactively ruinates
real ASCII art (if this catches on, seems most unlikely). Three,
is there a drawing program for this?

Tiny fragment follows:

  .,        ,; .r,
@nt      psx tma
  jn      ym,
  Bwg    pgB  WrW  ihutqnb:   ilnqcWlh  Woytvu  @fcajiS
   bu    tn   ves  jx    qo. Wka.  ckt  rkb    bw;   @qS
   lqc  osq   WsW    8kdhxu: so     sr  WgZ      Zmfqhs@
    jt .je    WaW  ywW:: um, ap     go  WoW    svh,i 0oW
    ScokmS    WvW oq     so  huZ   rim  WkW   pnB    0uZ
     pjvf     caq  yxdjqotew  murWhcoo  abl    rydgadhfq0
               ,    ,:;i   :        jf   ,       ,;i   .:
                             Ztc   jpr
                               nwrls.


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