Comments on: Thoughts about spam

By: Abe

Abe — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

running out the door so I can’t properly dig out the details, but the people behind the Nato extension to Max did a lot of spam art a couple years ago. It pretty much made everyone angry as fuck.

By: Klint

Klint — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well, sometimes good art is supposed to make people angy. Though it looks like Nato didn’t have much of a point.

http://bootsquad.com/nato/

“One of the ways in which I’ve worked with NATO involves the construction of applications that process incoming email (ok, to be totally up-front, I’m using AppleScript, too — NATO won’t check my mail for me). Basically, they import text data from the email and convert it into NATO instructions, which are used to generate QuickDraw images. The resulting pictures are then mailed back to the sender. A variation on this idea uses a webcam, which is directed to take a picture when incoming email is detected. NATO then creates a collage using the image, combined with text data from the email.”

By: Klintron

Klintron — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Abe sent URL along with some more information: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/print.html

He says “here is the article on Netochka Nezvanova, having been on some lists that “she” spammed I can say its damn annoying, although there was occasionally something interesting in the mix. A lot of it came from the shear volume
though, if it were one spam I don’t think anyone would have minded.”