Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails

Ian Howlett <ih...@ukc.ac.uk> writes:

> I am writing a program to detect ASCII art in email messages.
> 
> (The program will be in Perl, but any code or pseudocode will also
> be warmly received.)

After reading some of the suggestions in this thread, I've had
a go at this and have had a fair amount of success detecting
which posts to this group contain ascii-art, and in avoiding
false positives with other types of text such as source code.

I've only used 7 rules so far, but I've tried to make it easy
to add new ones, and to adjust the weighting values. If anyone
wants to see the code, it's at:

http://www.dmriley.demon.co.uk/code/ascii-art-scripts/aagrep.pl

-- 
(((( .'   )   //=====e       "Beneath the paving stones, the beach!"
 )))   \   )_//____________     -wall inscription Paris may '68
((((    J   ) David Riley  )===========O  dav...@dmriley.demon.co.uk
 ))))______)_______________)===========O  http://www.dmriley.demon.co.uk/

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