March 8, 2007: Artful Spamtrap

Undertoad · 03-08-2007, 12:14 PM

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.

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

If that thing had my address it'd hafta be fed a ream every hour.

must...fight...urge...to...make..."ream every hour"...joke...

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.

03-08-2007, 12:33 PM	#2
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	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? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-08-2007, 12:50 PM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	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! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

03-08-2007, 01:10 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	More pretentious crap posing as art. How nice. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-08-2007, 01:13 PM	#5
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	cahk sukker __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

03-08-2007, 02:05 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I like me a master debator __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-08-2007, 01:34 PM	#6
Emrikol Compatriot-at-Arms Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 107	That's why he never got my email

03-08-2007, 02:30 PM	#9
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	If that thing had my address it'd hafta be fed a ream every hour. __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

03-08-2007, 05:15 PM	#12
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	d-ream on fella __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

03-08-2007, 06:35 PM	#13
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-08-2007, 06:54 PM	#14
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	It reminds me of the youtube clip of Opie or Anthony "installing" Windows Vista on his shredder. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

03-08-2007, 08:59 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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