> Optimism is the root of all evil ;) and BTW do you really want to keep > them *extra busy*. > This said, Google catches my spam pretty well too and thanks for that ! Dude! It's not like they do it by hand or something. They have 15- infinity 26 year old Python hackers working on every link in gmail. But, I'm bored@work so... here's my response to the... 'task': sig = "j|hn.d.perkins / gmail.c|m".gsub!('|', 'o') puts sig if self == nostalgic_hacker # => false