Spam Killing Art
Now this is how to deal with Spam. We'll be talking to the artist Bill Shackelford on the next Pods and Blogs:
"Spamtrap" - watch the video
As the video shows the machine prints and shreds every piece of Spam sent to Bill's old Yahoo account. Worth a Turner Prize I think.
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The problem with Spam is that it is mechanical,impersonal and persistent.
The internet and blogosphere is at its best a conversation. The blogosphere allows us to have extended conversations; with some contributing fact, some opinion,some fiction; All in a market whose wares run from the largest news corporation down to the individual. And all vying for our attention in some way.
When those involved in this "conversation" treat each other with the same respect they would in their unplugged life then the experience is generally enjoyable and can feel a bit like wandering through a friendly marketplace or bazaar.
For a contributor to the conversation in this online bazaar to leave a link to their part of the online world is reasonable.
Those that host this corner of the bazzar do it. This blog for example links to the wider BBC network of sites. Those that pass by choose ,or dont choose , to leave links back to their part of the online world. This makes the internet a rich and diverse bazaar.
But the spammers send us their electronic plague fliesand they buzz over the walls of our online communities. They rush around our bazaar and blast us with with their irritating noise. They get in our face and wont be told to go away. As fast as we swot them they come back. Show a bare email or an unguarded discussion forum and the swarm arrives.