Journal article
A spam scam slam
M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.6(4, Fibre issue)
2003
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Abstract
<p>Introduction:<br />The spam, the spam…like a meteor shower it comes, unceasing like the tides, unrelenting in its desire to save me, to lift me from my slumber, misfit that I am, sitting in the darkness waiting to be delivered from my faltering biology, my feeble credit rating, my meagre education.</p>
<p>It comes every day, unbidden, from the Outside, from the Interior, from some networked techno-Badland where the righteous fear to tread. I don’t know who it comes from, they have never met me, they will never meet me. Their addresses are botched, their names are fake, Orientalized, Africanized, garbled beyond decryption. Their websites are down, their phones are off the hook, they route their missals through hapless foreign email servers whose gatekeepers have foolishly left their relays open. As soon as I set up filters to innoculate myself, their algorithms mutate and new strains develop, more wily and Protean than the last....</p>
Details
- Title
- A spam scam slam
- Creators
- Grayson Cooke - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.6(4, Fibre issue)
- Identifiers
- 1538; 991012821739502368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; School of Arts and Social Sciences; Creative Arts
- Resource Type
- Journal article