Here's an interesting project that takes a little bit of the bite out of
spam.
I recieved this on the rhetnet-l.
 
>>A couple of days ago on ACW-L, Judy Williamson asked how folks were
>>handling spam these days, noting that she was getting more & more all
>>the time. Several people responded with their take on what to do, but
>>Mick Doherty, an idea-hamster if ever there was one, said "why don't we
>>do something useful with all this spam? Let's use it as the subject of
>>rhetorical analysis!" Bradley Bleck allowed as how Mick was taking spam
>>and making spamonade, yours truly took the cue, and a new RhetNet
>>project was born:
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>[this is what I sent to ACW-L as an announcement]
 
 
 
>Eric Crump wrote:
>
> You guys are too cool. Good ideas just blurt right out of your fingers
> with monotonous regularity. All's a guy like me has to do is rearrange a
> few bits here & there and we have . . .
>
> "Turning Spam into Spamonade: A Rhetorical Analysis Project"
> http://www.missouri.edu/HyperNews/get/rhetnet/spamonade.html
>
> Which includes Judy's and Mick's notes by way of providing context (and a
> nod to Bradley for providing "spamonade"), plus a form for adding examples
> of spammage, plus a forum for discussing those examples and the issues
> they imply.
>
> Lemme know what you think. I've been getting lots of em too. I'm going to
> start dumping them here & see if we can make something useful out of the
> annoying things.
>
> --Eric Crump
>   RhetNet Webmom