Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails
From Anita Doobie - NOW <ton...@aol.com.net.org>
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· 4 Apr 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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>Subject: Detecting ASCII art in emails >From: Ian Howlett ih...@ukc.ac.uk >Date: 4/3/00 10:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time >Message-id: <38E...@ukc.ac.uk> > >Hello. > >I am writing a program to detect ASCII art in email messages. > >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. > >I thought I'd write and ask you folks who do lots of it what you >think the determining features are. > >My observations so far: > >There's lots of spaces, often at the start of a line. >Spaces are used differently to those in text. >There are few tab characters used. >Many non-alphanumeric characters are used. Actually there should not be *any* TABs at all in ASCII Art. ObASCII: ___.....-------....___ __..--~~~ ~~~--..__ _.-~~ __--~ . . ~--__ ~~-._ .-~ .-~ `. .' ~-. ~-. .' .~ ~. . `~' . .~ ~. `. ' .~ ~~--~~ ~~--~~ ~. ` .-~~-. .--~~~.. ..~~~--. .-~~-. . `. ' ` `.' ' ` .' . . `-.`-. .-' .` `-.._`--.._ B a t m a n .-` ~-----~ R i d d l e r ,~ l o g o _.' L e s t e r ,' A M C 9 8 -- .-~~-. (_^..^_) ||||AMC *Tony's ASCII Zine* http://www.zinezone.com/users/TonyCucchiara *Shockwave.com Version 2.0* http://v2.shockwave.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c288d57efd7c580d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ton...@aol.com.net.org (Anita Doobie - NOW) Subject: Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails Date: 2000/04/04 Message-ID: <200...@ng-ci1.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 606332070 References: <38E...@ukc.ac.uk> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art X-Admin: new...@aol.com
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