http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/08/12/spam-monkeys-on-the-existential-typewriter-of-my-mind/ A little bit technology, a little bit rock-n-roll Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:47:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/08/12/spam-monkeys-on-the-existential-typewriter-of-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-10275 Janet Asteroff Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=161#comment-10275 Spam sender names are the most fascinating things -- I would suspect they would make a wonderful dissertation topic. Their anthropological business value alone is wonderful. In '87 when I was writing my dissertation it was very difficult to get email messsages to study, or even to write on the subject from a social-communications point of view. Now, with the web, the social space has exploded the areas of exploration. And when I was studying had I thought that SPAM would have been the big money maker, I would have changed topics to something more profitable -- for email it's spam and security that pop to the top. The rest is all settled in the middle. Spam sender names are the most fascinating things — I would suspect they would make a wonderful dissertation topic. Their anthropological business value alone is wonderful. In ‘87 when I was writing my dissertation it was very difficult to get email messsages to study, or even to write on the subject from a social-communications point of view. Now, with the web, the social space has exploded the areas of exploration. And when I was studying had I thought that SPAM would have been the big money maker, I would have changed topics to something more profitable — for email it’s spam and security that pop to the top. The rest is all settled in the middle.

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