The Bot Fly & other poems
I made $400 on in one day
I have great success following this
just PLEASE view this
bad stuff going around about you
have you read it yet? wanna see me naked
& have a dirty chat?
come chat on this thingy here
find out to see who’s been stalking you here
hey this person is writing
offensive things that are about you
just wat r u doin in this
wow disturbing lol
lol u didn’t see them tapin u
how did u not see them tapping u
By Stephen Connolly.
Attention
After the opening epoch we confront a ‘dense matrix of overlapping and interacting actors and forces — the infrastructure of network protocols, hardware and standards, activist groups, hackers, lawyers, demography — with feedback loops , arms races, struggle over resources, and reinventions all going into making spam.’ This epoch is about developing threads of the concept of community, entwining the capture of attention with making money, collective organization and the law. Spammers of this epoch ended up badly. They tended to be shallow and damaged people. In this time spam feigned respectability and in the end failed.
Richard Marshall reviews Finn Bruton’s ‘Spam: A Shadow History Of The Internet.