Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails
From Joshua E Millard <pul...@WPI.EDU>
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· 4 Apr 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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Ian Howlett (ih...@ukc.ac.uk) wrote:
: I am currently designing the heuristics, or to put it another way,
: I'm trying to work out how you can identify the presence of ASCII art.
:
: My observations so far:
:
: Many non-alphanumeric characters are used.
I would bet that you could get fairly solid results if you searched for
occurances of /, |, and \ as your primary hooks. Toss in - and _, maybe +
and some others (. and , and ' and = and others) if you like, or as a
lower-weighted factor for your heuristic, but in terms of raw efficiency,
the pipe and slashes are probably more omnipresent in ASCII art and
lacking in non-ART posts than any other characters. The first 80% or so
of the search is the easist part. :)
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