X-Google-Thread: f996b,cd96a87c7540bae0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!homer!news.glorb.com!news-spur1.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr22.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!5d71b322!not-for-mail From: TLR User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: \__'[*+*]'___/05llllll'''''''''''''''lllllllllll'''''''''''''llllllll'''''''''''''''llllllll'''''''''''''''llllllll ''''''lllll'''''''llllll (1/1) References: <64956$459ac121$5490fc72$9335@news2.eu.disputo.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Message-ID: <974wh.36447$QU1.3348@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.7.197.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr22.news.prodigy.net 1170263621 ST000 69.7.197.98 (Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:13:41 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:13:41 EST Organization: AT&T http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: Q[R_PJONAJWWC_LZ\ZHLOTPCUSXB@DTMNHWB_EYLJZ]BGIELK^RAQFW[ML\THRCKV^GGZKJMGV^^_JSCFFUA_QXFGVSCYRPILH]TRVKC^LSN@DX_HCAFX__@J\DAJBVMY\ZWZCZLPA^MVH_P@\\EOMW\YSXHG__IJQY_@M[A[[AXQ_XDSTAR]\PG]NVAQUVM Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:13:08 -0600 Xref: g2news2.google.com alt.ascii-art:2945 Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Faux_Pseudo wrote: >> >> The easiest way killfile these posts is to kill repeats of punctuation >> in the subject line. This kills a lot of spam and newbiews who like >> to do things like end the subject with something like '!!!'. > > FWIW, I believe the two recent "spam" posters have arranged their > subject lines so that sorting the thread subjects will reveal an image, > which would be on-topic here if it weren't intentionally annoying. > Unfortunately, I don't have any newsreader capable of displaying the > whole image (and I'm certainly not going to waste time cut-and-pasting > it together) --- but from context I'm pretty sure that we won't be > hearing from spamfredo et al. for another year or so. ;) > > -Arthur yep - the last "llll" one, anyway, spells out "Happy New Year"