RE: anti-spam idea for this list

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest@ftb.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@ursine.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > I will give up my keyboard and text mode interface when they pry it
> > from my cold dead fingers...
> 
> I'm with you, there.
> 
> 
> - -- 
>  .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
> : :'  :    
> `. `'`     proud Debian admin and user
>   `-  Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system

How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)?

$ figlet -w 72 jrdepriest@ftb.com
   _         _                 _           _    ____   __ _   _
  (_)_ __ __| | ___ _ __  _ __(_) ___  ___| |_ / __ \ / _| |_| |__
  | | '__/ _` |/ _ \ '_ \| '__| |/ _ \/ __| __/ / _` | |_| __| '_ \
  | | | | (_| |  __/ |_) | |  | |  __/\__ \ || | (_| |  _| |_| |_) |
 _/ |_|  \__,_|\___| .__/|_|  |_|\___||___/\__\ \__,_|_|  \__|_.__(_)
|__/               |_|                         \____/

  ___ ___  _ __ ___
 / __/ _ \| '_ ` _ \
| (_| (_) | | | | | |
 \___\___/|_| |_| |_|

Makes perfect sense to a human eye, but should foil spam harvester bots.