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February 13, 2004
A spam blog!

The "Dream Income" blog is devoted to archiving spam. Actually, the posts are nothing more than the header to the spam, then the message text -- as if the spam itself were writing the blog.

It's quite hilarious to look at, partly because it looks like a real blog, written by a real person. And that reminds us of the most salient fact about spam, which is that quite apart from it being a huge annoyance, it's also the world's largest and most successful Turing Test ever: A mass communication by robotized life forms desperately attempting to pose as human.

More significantly, the blog rocks because it is keeping an archive of spam. That's actually a rather valuable service. Because who saves spam? Hell, I'm one of the few freaks that actually regularly reads his spam, just because I'm interested in it; but not even I save copies of them. The end result is that this no central "Library of Spam"; this enormous cultural explosion of hucksterism is not really being recorded anywhere, and in a purely academic sense, that's sad. It's the same way many pieces of pop culture were treated. Public libraries didn't save copies of comic books, penny dreadfuls, or pop CDs either, and so much of that incredibly rich history is hard to find too.


(Thanks to Jonathan Korman for this one!)

Posted by Clive Thompson at February 13, 2004 01:40 PM

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Well, I guess I'm a FREAK Extraordinaire. I've saved it all, at least since 1997. Every spam I've gotten. And I get MUCH more spam than the average person, since I'm webmaster and postmaster for several domains. I have hundereds of thousands of message... [Read More]

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I assume that spam-filter-tuners are storing (and indexing and collating) spam. Not the same as publishing it, though.

Posted by: clew at February 13, 2004 2:50 PM

Good question; I'm not sure how the Bayesian spam filters work. They definitely have to analyze spam and identify key phrases to check for in future emails. But I don't think they permanently store the entire piece of spam -- just the key phrase that turns out to be the unique identifier.

Posted by: Clive at February 13, 2004 2:53 PM

Clive, that's right: Bayesian filtering captures repeating words from spam, but doesn't need retain the text of the spam messages themselves.

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