12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
9:04 a.m.
At 10:51 AM 4/12/2005, Tom Jennings 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?
I'd seen old low-res pin-up art in spam more than a year ago,
and these text versions lately. It's probably hand-made.
As non-words, I think it would trigger some spam filters.
They don't seem to care whether they're making fixed-width
art or using variable width fonts. I've seen some that's
quite messed up in Eudora.
Any old ASCII art program would do it, no? I think there
are tools that can turn bitmaps to ASCII, so why not?
- John