Back in the pre-Web days, heck, in the pre-WYSIWYG word processing days, a common way to make big type was the Unix banner program (here’s a link to the man page). In these days of HTML, HTML email, and Microsoft Word, the banner program has fallen into disuse, a relic of the moldy ASCII past. Imagine my surprise when I saw it repurposed by spammers. Over the past few days I’ve gotten a lot of spam with a message body like this:
# # # ## #### ##### ##
# # # # # # # # # # #
# # # # # # # # # #
# # # ###### # ### ##### ######
# # # # # # # # # # #
## # # # #### # # # #
I don’t think it will take spam filters too long to catch on, but I give the spammers points for creativity.
The Unix banner program rides again
Back in the pre-Web days, heck, in the pre-WYSIWYG word processing days, a common way to make big type was the Unix banner program (here’s a link to the man page). In these days of HTML, HTML email, and Microsoft Word, the banner program has fallen into disuse, a relic of the moldy ASCII past. Imagine my surprise when I saw it repurposed by spammers. Over the past few days I’ve gotten a lot of spam with a message body like this:
I don’t think it will take spam filters too long to catch on, but I give the spammers points for creativity.
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