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Old 03-08-2007, 12:14 PM   #1
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March 8, 2007: Artful Spamtrap



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

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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.
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Old 03-08-2007, 12:33 PM   #2
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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?
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Old 03-08-2007, 12:50 PM   #3
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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!
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:10 PM   #4
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More pretentious crap posing as art.

How nice.
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:13 PM   #5
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:34 PM   #6
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That's why he never got my email

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Old 03-08-2007, 01:37 PM   #7
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That's why he never got my email

Yes, I employ a similar system, known as "Caller ID" ...
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Old 03-08-2007, 02:05 PM   #8
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I like me a master debator
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Old 03-08-2007, 02:30 PM   #9
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If that thing had my address it'd hafta be fed a ream every hour.
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Old 03-08-2007, 03:41 PM   #10
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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.)
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Old 03-08-2007, 03:42 PM   #11
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If that thing had my address it'd hafta be fed a ream every hour.
must...fight...urge...to...make..."ream every hour"...joke...


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Old 03-08-2007, 05:15 PM   #12
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Old 03-08-2007, 06:35 PM   #13
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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.
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Old 03-08-2007, 06:54 PM   #14
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It reminds me of the youtube clip of Opie or Anthony "installing" Windows Vista on his shredder.
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Old 03-08-2007, 08:59 PM   #15
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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.
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