#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$|=8;open X,$0;grep{s;#\s(.*)#\n;$m.=$1;meg}(<X>);; #        Put #
@n=qw;. o 0 O 0 o;;$s=22;$m=" "x$s.$m;$l=length $m; #       your #
for(0..2*$l){$r=substr($m,($_%$l),$s);$r.=substr($m #    message #
,0,$s-(length$r));print"  $n[$_%@n] ",$r," $n[$_%@n #      here. #
]  \r";select($8,$',$@,.1);}print" "x($s+$|*8),"\r" #  Have fun! #

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An email .signature which will scroll your message across the screen, also has a 'heartbeat' animation at either side of the text.

I didn't want to obfuscate the message text itself, as I know that only a minority of the people that I send emails to actually use Perl. However, I would be grateful if anyone could offer suggestions on how I could make the code more obfuse.

In reply to Message scroller in a .signature by jj808

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