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From: Sharky <sharky@hellsgates.cor>
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Subject: Re: What do we call these?
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:18:02 -0500
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Moz wrote:

>Greetings. I'm looking for a place that lists some of these kinds of
>things:
>
>��*��)
>��.*����.**����) ��.**����)
>(��.*�� (��*����(�� Gling!
>(��.*�� (��.*����
>
>
>I see these listed in peoples emails and I love them, but what would I
>even call this stuff? I've looked under ASCII art, but that is always
>drawings. I just want embellished text really.
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>Moz

The reason that you can't find it under ASCII art is that it's not
part of the ASCII Character Set. The post you made used
charset=EUC-KR, which doesn't appear to be something that renders on
my system.  The original post on Google looks even worse... 

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.ascii-art/msg/ed638c80e3b91176?hl=en&dmode=sourcehttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.ascii-art/msg/ed638c80e3b91176?hl=en&dmode=source
or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/84mldc

You can create some very nice ASCII signatures without using exotic
character sets by using  tools like Figlet http://www.figlet.org/ and
JavE http://www.jave.de/ .

You might also be interested in the ASCII Art FAQ, which has a wealth
of information about creating character based art,
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/q/ada/aaafaq.htm