ASCII art spam

[David H. Barr]

There are many, many, MANY programs that do such things.  It felt like
a matter of time, and I disagree with you that it won't catch on,
sadly :/  I predict hypertext ascii art links, with stylesheets to
turn off the underlining.

-dhbarr the saddened.

On Apr 12, 2005 10:51 AM, Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
> 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.
>