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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 16 Jun 1994.
Re: Talk: rot13 and ASCII art

Re: Talk: rot13 and ASCII art

Christopher Ice x2136 (cmi...@mke.ab.com) wrote:

: I actually going to follow up to my own post.  Someone mailed to me that Rot13
: won't hide ascii art appreciably as the pictures are made of random letters
: and punctuation anyway.  Maybe UUencode would be a way to obscure potentially
: offensive material?

I have another suggestion.  Place a control-L (^L) at the beginning of a
line.  This should work for most newsreaders.  Otherwise, a page of blank
lines should do the trick.

For example:

The following ASCII picture may be offensive to some readers.
If you do not wish to see this picture, please press 'n' now:


This picture really is twisted and disgusting.  Don't say I didn't
warn you!!!


This is your last chance to save your sanity. 


	 *     <---   Dead spider




--
David Radcliffe               rad...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition,
and art into pedantry.  Hence University education.  -- G. B. Shaw

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From: rad...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii
Subject: Re: Talk: rot13 and ASCII art
Date: 16 Jun 1994 16:08:10 -0500
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