Re: <nettime> email filter blues and the s word

[Sean Cubitt via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

hei Geert
like a lot of academics I have a few email addresses. One website is attached to an now abandoned spam-catcher address that gets about 30 fishery mails a day, much of the kind you have.

My university mail gets large numbers of vanity press and predatory publishing mail. Many are personalised, many start with variants on 'we  enjoyed your piece on pandemic culture, would you like to publish in the Moonee Ponds Journal of Virology' (or quantum engineering or Bactrian archaeology). Or be the editor of the same. Or edit a special issue. Whatever it is, if you reply the requests for payment start. One or two may be mechanical Turks converting scraped data into personalised mail.

 Micro$oft filters catch a few; some are resistant to blocking. It wouldn't surprise me if some are generated using services from the monopolists, which would explain why monoplist filters don't exclude them.

The environmental cost of farmed mails and farmed filtering has to be pretty huge. I've tried engaging spam mobile calls in conversation about  their employers but they hang up: obviously part of the script. They aren't just annoying: they are bad people




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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 17:15:13 +0100
From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: <nettime> email filter blues and the s word
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Dear nettimers, I compiled messages that I received over the past weeks and wanted to discuss them with you but it proves impossible to send this email to you via email because of the filters that are installed everywhere. I discussed it with Christian and he also tried but it simply doesn?t work. Christian however created a solution: you can read my email to nettime here: https://swertz.org/index.php/s/W2S7scPHEDtr7Lo. Absurd, but what else can we do? We would be very interested to discuss this case further, here, on the list itself, but let?s see if that will work out. Can we still use the s word or not even that? Best, Geert (also on behalf of Christian)




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