ASCII art spam

[chris]

>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?

The next generation of spam filters needs to start doing spell checking. 
If more then a certain number of words don't match the dictionary file, 
then it is rejected.

This does double duty, helps filter out spam using letter substitution, 
and also helps filter out people who can't be bothered with spell check 
(including all those teens that type like they are chatting via text 
messaging). :-)

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>