Re: [microsound][ot] rnd text poetry

[nick knouf <nknouf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I've gotten a couple requests for the e-mails so I'll just post the link:

http://www.mimeme.net/spam_emails.tar.gz

It's about 9.3MB.  Go easy: my poor PII (which is getting replaced
soon!) and slow cable upload link will thank you ;-)

nick


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:18:47 -0700, Craig, Ray
<ray.craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> The spam messages that you've been collecting sounds interesting.
> If you don't mind sharing your collection, I would appreciate a copy.
> 
> My intent is to shuffle some lines to create a found poem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ray Craig
> San Francisco
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nick knouf [mailto:nknouf@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 7:14 AM
> To: microsound
> Subject: Re: [microsound][ot] rnd text poetry
> 
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:51:16 -0700 (PDT), Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > They certainly can catch the eye and ear; I've been collecting these, I've
> > got a couple hundred messages cached with the intention to collect them
> > all into a chapbook of sorts. I thought it would be nice to hand-bind
> > some, perhaps set in conjunction with hand-colored versions of magnified
> > pixelated images -- paint-by-numbers for few-thousand square images.
> 
> (note: I've been a lurker for a month or two; I was going to lurk
> until I had something of a musical nature to add to the discussion,
> but I figured this is a good time as any to start posting...)
> 
> I too have been collecting these spam messages for some
> as-yet-to-be-determined art (video and/or audio) project.  Another
> thing I find interesting is the short bits of real literature that
> sometimes gets inserted; it's as if you're playing a game whereby you
> take a book, turn to a random page, and read only a certain paragraph
> on that page.  It's interesting to see small sections of a novel taken
> completely out of their context.
> 
> Anyway, as I said, I've been collecting and saving my spam messages
> since April and have a little over 6200 message now (hmm...that works
> out to be around 50 per day, yikes!)  If anybody wants a corpus of
> spam messages to work from, drop me a line, and I can zip/tar.gz my
> stash.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> nick
> 
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