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[new] A return of censored art? (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#3)
by Aileen on Sat Jul 5th, 2003 at 03:27:19 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Looking at the messages in my inbox that made it through the spam filter over night and thinking about the legislated filtering in Amy's post on librarians, I started wondering how soon it might become illegal for minors to have their own e-mail addresses, in order to "protect" them from exposure to pornography.
Sometimes I find it amusing to look at spam messages to try to figure out how they got through the filter this time, sometimes I'm just annoyed to find myself confronted with someone else's uninteresting fantasies about sex and money, but most of the time I just wonder what the point is - especially when small organizations suddenly find themselves blacklisted and unable to communicate with the "rest of the world", because someone has been using their server to send spam. So much effort and creativity appears to go into finding ways to get spam out to as many addresses as possible - as working material for art projects it might be interesting, but is that really the point? I find myself increasingly intrigued by the question of who expends that much effort and why. Are spammers "real" people? Why do they do it?

spam does dada, dada does spam. | 6 comments

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