How to Make ASCII art work in Email Signature

For years I've had a crappy home ASCII art signature in my email - it only works on REALLY old computers. Not that I ever cared. for years I kept my email to ASCII not HTML

Partly this is becasue HTML in email was crap, bloody awful and didn't work, this is largely still the case. Writing websites that render has got easier, but getting emails to render is still are nightmare.

Ascii doesn't display in HTML, multiple spaces are removed, etc etc etc. yes you can replace spaces with   but its messy

Simlest way that seems to work is wrap the art in in <pre> and wrap that in a <span> with inline fixed width font styles.

looks like:

                           _     _             _                    _
  ___   __  __  ____  ___ | |__ (_)_ __  _ __ (_) __      ___   __ | |_
 / _ \ / _|/ _|/ _' |/ _ \| |_ \| | '_ \| '_ \| |/ _|    / _ \ / _|| '_|
| (_) | (_| |-- (_| | | | | | | | | (_) | (_) | | |-- _ | | | | |--| |_
 \___/ \__|\__/___'_|_| | |_| |_|_| |__/| |__/|_|\|_/(_)| | | |\__/ \__|
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