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-   -   March 8, 2007: Artful Spamtrap (http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=13510)

Undertoad 03-08-2007 12:14 PM
March 8, 2007: Artful Spamtrap
 
http://cellar.org/2007/spamtrap.jpg

This work of one Bill Shackelford is documented at this page of his web site.

Quote:
My Spamtrap monitors an email address I created specifically to lure in spam. I do not use this email address for any other communication. I post this email address on websites and online bulletin boards that cause it to be harvested by spambots and then to start receiving spam ... When a new spam email is detected by my installation, it automatically prints it out. The printed email slides down a track into the shredder that analyzes it.

Elspode 03-08-2007 12:33 PM
As an artistic statement, I love it. However, taking an electronic abomination and using it to generate more physical waste seems a bit silly. I mean, what's he going to build when he decides he doesn't like air pollution? A big smokestack?

Flint 03-08-2007 12:50 PM
I love it. This reminds me of a certain debate style: a question is "created specifically to lure in" a predictable reponse, that is "detected" and "automatically" quoted, then "slides down a track into the shredder that analyzes it." The master debater has vanquished another foe!

wolf 03-08-2007 01:10 PM
More pretentious crap posing as art.

How nice.

lumberjim 03-08-2007 01:13 PM
cahk sukker

Emrikol 03-08-2007 01:34 PM
That's why he never got my email

:(

Flint 03-08-2007 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Emrikol (Post 321399)
That's why he never got my email

:(
Yes, I employ a similar system, known as "Caller ID" ...

Sundae 03-08-2007 02:05 PM
I like me a master debator

barefoot serpent 03-08-2007 02:30 PM
If that thing had my address it'd hafta be fed a ream every hour.

SteveDallas 03-08-2007 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 321391)
More pretentious crap posing as art.

How nice.
I don't give a damn if it's art or not, but I like it. (If only it would "analyze" the spammers themselves.)

Sheldonrs 03-08-2007 03:42 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by barefoot serpent (Post 321430)
If that thing had my address it'd hafta be fed a ream every hour.
must...fight...urge...to...make..."ream every hour"...joke...


:D

barefoot serpent 03-08-2007 05:15 PM
d-ream on fella

footfootfoot 03-08-2007 06:35 PM
somehow I misread the title as "Artful Supertramp" and I was thinking a bunch of the band members were now hawking shitty expressionist paintings.

somewhat of a let down.

Happy Monkey 03-08-2007 06:54 PM
It reminds me of the youtube clip of Opie or Anthony "installing" Windows Vista on his shredder.

xoxoxoBruce 03-08-2007 08:59 PM
Loading it wit a roll of toilet paper would make it perfect.
I found by transcribing the addresses of every spam email, faithfully, every day. Then forwarding them to the Federal Trade Commission's special email address (spam@uce.gov), after a few months, spam was down 90%. Can't hurt. :cool:


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