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September 03, 2004
Spamblogging gets briefly mentioned in NYT
While it doesn't appear to have changed our traffic patterns at all, we had a brief reference in this NYT article.
Imagine, for instance, that you are the owner of a spam-filter company sending out anti-spam marketing solicitations. Do you want your filter products to block those messages or not? If they don't block anti-spam, an existing customer might say, "Hmm, my filter doesn't work." And if your filter does block your anti-spam, then you're branded as a spammer: even your own product says so!"It's a slippery slope," Eric Smith, a programmer and founder of spamblogging.com, a site for the discussion of spam, said by e-mail.
The article is about the recent (and odd) phenomena of self-awareness in spam messages. We have likely all seen spam that comes to us, unwanted, and offers to help us with our spam problem.
Were we to buy into the product, we would then no longer get these messages in theory.
It is like some sort of combination of mafia protection racket - blackmail practically in the literal sense - and some sort of odd self-loathing entity that approaches you and offers help to get rid of itself.
Posted by Eric at September 3, 2004 02:42 PM
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Yeah, I do tend to write a lot :) (not that it is a good thing)
Various parts of what he wrote are technically quotes from what I said, some of what are in that blurb there, but the only part that is clear is the "slipper slope" and I don't even really saying that (not claiming I didn't say that, just don't recall it and I'm too lazy to go look it up in my sent mail folder).
For some amusing views on Circuits, I highly recommend Gizmodo - they occasionally mock Circuits fairly well.
Posted by: Eric at September 3, 2004 05:49 PM
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nicely done getting in the nyt -- though knowing you i imagine you sent them a few pages of carefully thought out and clearly articulated discourse. of which they quote "it's a slippery slope." ahh well! but it's good to know that circuits, after recently having noticed the world wide web two years ago, has now discovered both spam and blogging.
Posted by: dewitt at September 3, 2004 05:38 PM