today’s topic: spam. the bad followed by the good. first the bad- the nonist’s url was spoofed by a spammer somewhere so if you have received any emails trying to sell you pharmaceuticals or raising the alarm over bird flu i apologize, but rest assured it was not from us. second the good- last week i received two bits of mail, undeniably spam, which never the less caught my eye. at the top of each message was the usual junk, but in each, after a short bit of blank space, the message continued with a large block of text which to my -highly- developed ear sounded uncannily like dada poetry. the first thing that sprung to mind was that fortune cookie which reads: “help me i’m trapped in a fortune cookie factory.” was this a creative cry for help?

These spam stories are truly strange, I agree. The other spamomenon I have observed is the ‘Hey I love your blog, come to my site’ posts that are quite frequent now on Blogger sites. I guess what might be weirder are the large number of folks trying to run business sites from Blogger…

I think spam has this pseudo-content to fool filters into thinking it must contain real content. possibly they’re cut-and-pasting from somewhere that it did have meaning.

I think, spam is kind of new genre, because they (or most of then) are written not for an commercial profit, but ‘cause of others causes. If it’s automatic machine-writing, so we have here realisation of the dadaistic dreams about new literary practice.

Well, I don’t want to produce spam, but I’ve got some spam-mails and also wanted to take it to an literary apogee.

You can find these spam-ready-made (or not only) on my blog:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/dada_ist/44947.html

and here

http://www.20six.de/Vladix/archive/2005/05/23/eonp7l8yzzuu.htm