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: ------------------------------------------------------------- >[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