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From: tceisele@mtu.edu (Eisele)
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Subject: Talk: rot13 and ASCII art
Date: 15 Jun 1994 13:46:03 -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

As an exercise, I just tried it. Since Rot13 only works on alphabetic
characters, and not things like punctuation marks, the effect was minimal.
The shading was thrown off slightly in a few cases, but by and large ascii
art seems to be pretty much immune to this treatment.  


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Tim Eisele  	Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering  
Michigan Tech. University   tceisele@mtu.edu