X-Google-Thread: f996b,cd96a87c7540bae0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!nn.andrew.cmu.edu!lmtp2nntp!not-for-mail From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: \__'[*+*]'___/05llllll'''''''''''''''lllllllllll'''''''''''''llllllll'''''''''''''''llllllll'''''''''''''''llllllll ''''''lllll'''''''llllll (1/1) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:20:51 -0500 (EST) Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <64956$459ac121$5490fc72$9335@news2.eu.disputo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: smtp.andrew.cmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: nn.andrew.cmu.edu 1167783651 31429 128.2.10.83 (3 Jan 2007 00:20:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postman+netnews@andrew.cmu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:20:51 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 128.2.10.83 Xref: g2news2.google.com alt.ascii-art:2810 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