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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Apr 2000.
Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails

Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails

On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:51:38 +0200, Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net> wrote:

>ojoshiro wrote:
>> sara wallen wrote:
>> >Veronica Karlsson wrote:
>> >> Henry Segerman wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > You could link it with a spell checker - if it cant find any words it recognises
>> >> > in large amounts of ASCII then its probably not writing.
>> >>
>> >> Hmmm... n�nting s�ger mig att den biten kanske inte riktigt st�mmer...
>> >
>> >LOL... j�ttetr�kigt, med Word97 ocks� :(
>> 
>> The two ladies here demonstrate what 'text with non-ascii characters'
>> means.
>
>Yes, that too.   :-)
>
>> It sure wouldn't survive your ascii-checker, Veronika =)
>
>No, but the point was that it wouldn't survive Henry Segerman's
>suggestion that one use a spell checker to identify what's _ascii art_.
>That *might* work, for *some* pictures, *if* everybody wrote in English
>(assuming that it would be an English spell checker). That method would
>not work for text in other languages, or for those visual poems somebody
>posted here a while ago...
>
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whats this? the great veronika posting no pics, and non askii characters?
what has happened to your sense of cyber morality?
what happened to adhering to the FAQ?

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From: mik...@bluedwarf.net (MJP)
Subject: Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails
Date: 2000/04/06
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References: <38E...@ukc.ac.uk> <8catkd$66v$1...@news.ox.ac.uk> <38E...@earthling.net> <il9...@4ax.com> <8F0DE4C0Eojoshirolunatechcom@195.66.14.174> <38E...@earthling.net>
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