ASCII art spam

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:18:25 +0200
Stefan <birs23 at zeelandnet.nl> wrote:

> Hmm I can remember having a mod for my BBS package that would filter
> out any ad's from other BBS' and those contained also random stuff so
> hmm should be usuable for spam too no ?
> 

I had a 'filter' on my BBS because one single user had an annoying habit
of typing in ALL CAPS.  And he didn't have an all-caps terminal to use
as an excuse.  So one night I dug in and hacked the Pascal code (this
was a WWIV BBS) to not allow any but the first letter in an entered word
to be upper case (it would automatically force all following letters to
lower case until some whitespace occured).  Next time Mister All-Caps
logged in he had a fit.  What a riot online life was those days...