Roar so wildly spam, technology and language

Radical Philosophy

Volumn , Issue 164, 2010, Pages 2-7

  Brunton, Finn ^a  

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References (11)

1. This and all other Graham quotes from Paul Graham, 'A Plan for Spam', 2002, www.paulgraham.com/spam.html.
2. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1948, p. 27.
3. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1948, p. 27., Ibid., p. 28.
4. There are many memoirs and folk etymologies of early network culture that converge on this point. The interested reader can easily find a substantial collection of them in the archives of Usenet;
5. see for example James Parry's message in the discussion 'Totally Spam? It's Lubricated' on alt. religion. kibology, 2 September 2003, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion. kibology/msg/a89af63f065a35da.
6. Patrik Pantel and Dekang Lin, 'SpamCop: A Spam Classification and Organization Program', 1998, in Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization, pp. 95-8, which features a false positive rate of 1.16 per cent. The difference between scientific work on Bayesian spam filtering and Graham's open-ended, communal hacker approach is an interesting case study in the production styles of two very distinct but overlapping cultures.
7. Alan Turing, 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', Mind, vol. 59, no. 236, October 1950, pp. 433-60.
8. Christian Kreibich, et al., 'On the Spam Campaign Trail', 2008, in Proceedings of the 1st Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats.
9. David Dagon et al., 'Modeling Botnet Propagation Using Time Zones', 2006, in Proceedings of the 13th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '06).
10. MessageLabs/Symantec, 'Reputable Sources Are Cyber Criminals Favored Resources; Spammers Work by US Clocks', MessageLabs Intelligence, May 2009, http://www.messagelabs.com/mlireport/MLIReport-2009-05-May-FINAL.pdf. Estimates from different institutions can vary depending on methodologies, quantification tools, and global spam activity, which can fluctuate wildly.
11. Hollis Frampton, from 'For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses', in On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2009, p. 119.