On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, decoder wrote:
Loren Wilton wrote:
Ah. Sig-file format. That is I guess a slight new twist. This
sort of thing was popular for a month or two a couple of years ago.
I suspect they gave up on it then because it was probably done by
hand and not worth the effort.
Yea this could probably be catched by looking for huge amounts of
typical ascii art characters like \ | / ( ) etc...
The particular example that started this thread looks like
output from the "figlet" program. See:
http://www.figlet.org/
http://www.figlet.org/examples.html
Of course, as soon as you create a plugin or rules that
recognize figlet output, then they will start creating it
by hand. Or modifying figlet output. So it would be helpful
to create a rule that keeps that in mind.
Also, it might be bad to create a plugin or rule that matches
any ASCII art in any message. Not all ASCII art is spam.
- Logan
