lol, Geert, this seems imminently recursive as you are likely an AI bot and are
spoofing nettime subscribers with this posting ... or not. The links to an
unfamiliar server for a downloadable txt file: I wouldn't touch it if you paid
me 100 bitcoin. Why not upload samples to your inhouse INC server?
"on the internet, no one knows you are a dog ..."
p(doom) ≥ 1
so it goes.
JH
On 12/6/23 10:16 AM, Geert Lovink via nettime-l wrote:
Of course we could try. Here is the intro and then the messages below it can be
read here:https://swertz.org/index.php/s/W2S7scPHEDtr7Lo.
Dear Nettimers,
what kind of spam do you receive? As the whole list drama of the past
period centred around ’spam control’ as the main argument of Google,
Microsoft and a few others to kill independent email servers, I started
to become curious, again, about the spam phenomena itself. Here at the
Institute of Network Cultures we receive a decent amount. So much that
we started to oversee crucial emails of interested parties and people in
our work, seeking collaboration.
Lately I also discovered a new genre, perhaps related to the rise of AI:
personalized machine-generated letters that are customized in such a
way that you start to get confused: is this a person, genuinely
interested in our work, or a machine? Usually, they oversee one or two
details and then you know… We have an .org domain and are very obviously
not a company but very visibly part of a Dutch (large) non-profit
public education institution ~(hva.nl<http://hva.nl/>).
If this is not taken into account you know they did not even look for a
second on our website: it’s spam. However, they politely come back to
you, addressing you in an informal way, a few days later, insisting they
want make a personal appointment, pretending there is a already some
kind of personal contact or connection. Intimidating and uncanny. Same
happens with invoices. But then… there are still the classic ones from
China, which, in contrast, are a relief to read.
Best, Geert
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