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From: cmice@mke.ab.com (Christopher Ice x2136)
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Subject: Talk: rot13 and ASCII art
Date: 16 Jun 1994 11:28:53 -0500
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Christopher Ice x2136 (cmice@mke.ab.com) wrote:

:>In the future, you can "Rot13" your posts if you feel it is something which
:>may offend some people.  Then the reader has to deliberately un-Rot13 it...in
:>which case, they were duly warned.  I think the ^L was pretty effective in any
:>case, but school teachers or parents with internet access for kids can remove
:>the ability to un-Rot13, and to some extent, have control over what their kids 
:>see

:>Don't take my suggestion as harping....just an idea from rec.humor.funny.

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?

Chris
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