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From: stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore)
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Subject: Re: New to ASCII art? Read me first!
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:58:20 GMT, Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL (Faux_Pseudo)
enlightened us with:

> --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
> 		--(David Palmer said it like only they can.)--
> ><snip>
> > 
> >> --
> >> llizard aka ejm  >%^7^^^7^^
> >> llizard@idirec+.ca
> >> ASCII-art & ASCII-animation
> >> www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ascii-art/
> >>
> >> NOTE: If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to
> >> "idirct"; its absence is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
> > 
> > This is a bit confusing.
> > If I add an "e" to "idirct" it makes "idircte".
> > Perhaps I should replace the "+" in "idirec+" with "t" to make "iderect" ?
> 
> actualy the + has special meaning if it passes though a sendmail mail
> client and is a bad choice
> something like id_r_ct relace the "_"s with "e"s would be better
> 

Not very much better, as email would be sent to iderect.ca
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