15 points
Correspond with a spammer by LaughingBear
January 6th, 2011 5:36 PM / Location: 39.752090,-94.81890
1/2/11 4:29 p
Am sorting through my large Spam folder for a likely target. Unfortunately, my Spam appears to have none of the more personal Spam. Just advertising sent by bots. I'll have to look further...
1/2/11 4:48 p
Aha! Found one.
From:
"Pamela Miller"
To: *ridiculous number of people*
www.tabletfuelspillsrx.com
My reply:
From: *me*
To: "Pamela Miller"
I want to thank you for sharing your interest in Canadian Online Pharmaceuticals with me, so in return I will share my interest in discord with you:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com
Although, from both an aesthetic and a philosophical viewpoint, I must give low scores in both intent and execution to your example of webbery, I hope you will learn from the example I have offered. Best wishes, and feel free to contact me with your thoughts on the matter. I look forward to hearing from you.
And she writes back:
From:
"Pamela Miller" Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:46 AM
To: *ridiculous number of people*
www.greatmedsmedicine.net
my reply:
From: *me*
To: "Pamela Miller"
I must confess, I was beginning to lose hope for our correspondence. In fact, the nature of your last missive gives me pause, for I can see that not much has changed in your preferred example of website. Perhaps the fault is mine for not being sufficiently clear. I have no interest in ordering pharmaceutical products of any kind. If you have something more esoteric, even arcane, I would be happy to give it a look.
In the spirit of our ongoing communication, however, allow me to direct your attention to this:
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/abroject.htm
I await your reply.
I am beginning to doubt that I am corresponding with an actual human being at all:
Thursday, January 6, 2011 12:40 AM
From:
"Pamela Miller"
To: *ridiculously long list of people*
www.yourtabletspillsmeds.com
my reply:
To: "Pamela Miller"
From: *me*
I am beginning to suspect that this is a subtle version of the Turing Test. I demand herewith that you prove that you are indeed a human being. Acceptable proof for the time being will consist of any response that is NOT some sort of medicinal website. Be warned, Pamela, one more communication like the previous ones will result in your return to the Spam pile.
I await your response.
Her (its) response:
Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:18 PM
From:
"Pamela Miller"
To: *ridiculous number of people*
www.healthwellnessawareness.net
My final reply
Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:30 PM
From: *me*
To: "Pamela Miller"
Ms. Miller, if this is indeed who you are, you have not proved that you are a human being and are therefore being relegated to the Spam pile once more. I wish you luck in diverting people to these websites and in further imitation of a human being, but I personally will not be corresponding with you again.
I am calling this complete, as I don't have any other likely suspects in my Spam pile, but it still smacks of failure, not exactly being correspondence. If I should receive emails from African royalty trying to get their money out of war torn regions or Russian/Asian/[insert ethnicity here] women trying to come to the US, I'll have to unsubmit this and redo it.
Am sorting through my large Spam folder for a likely target. Unfortunately, my Spam appears to have none of the more personal Spam. Just advertising sent by bots. I'll have to look further...
1/2/11 4:48 p
Aha! Found one.
From:
"Pamela Miller"
To: *ridiculous number of people*
www.tabletfuelspillsrx.com
My reply:
From: *me*
To: "Pamela Miller"
I want to thank you for sharing your interest in Canadian Online Pharmaceuticals with me, so in return I will share my interest in discord with you:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com
Although, from both an aesthetic and a philosophical viewpoint, I must give low scores in both intent and execution to your example of webbery, I hope you will learn from the example I have offered. Best wishes, and feel free to contact me with your thoughts on the matter. I look forward to hearing from you.
And she writes back:
From:
"Pamela Miller" Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:46 AM
To: *ridiculous number of people*
www.greatmedsmedicine.net
my reply:
From: *me*
To: "Pamela Miller"
I must confess, I was beginning to lose hope for our correspondence. In fact, the nature of your last missive gives me pause, for I can see that not much has changed in your preferred example of website. Perhaps the fault is mine for not being sufficiently clear. I have no interest in ordering pharmaceutical products of any kind. If you have something more esoteric, even arcane, I would be happy to give it a look.
In the spirit of our ongoing communication, however, allow me to direct your attention to this:
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/abroject.htm
I await your reply.
I am beginning to doubt that I am corresponding with an actual human being at all:
Thursday, January 6, 2011 12:40 AM
From:
"Pamela Miller"
To: *ridiculously long list of people*
www.yourtabletspillsmeds.com
my reply:
To: "Pamela Miller"
From: *me*
I am beginning to suspect that this is a subtle version of the Turing Test. I demand herewith that you prove that you are indeed a human being. Acceptable proof for the time being will consist of any response that is NOT some sort of medicinal website. Be warned, Pamela, one more communication like the previous ones will result in your return to the Spam pile.
I await your response.
Her (its) response:
Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:18 PM
From:
"Pamela Miller"
To: *ridiculous number of people*
www.healthwellnessawareness.net
My final reply
Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:30 PM
From: *me*
To: "Pamela Miller"
Ms. Miller, if this is indeed who you are, you have not proved that you are a human being and are therefore being relegated to the Spam pile once more. I wish you luck in diverting people to these websites and in further imitation of a human being, but I personally will not be corresponding with you again.
I am calling this complete, as I don't have any other likely suspects in my Spam pile, but it still smacks of failure, not exactly being correspondence. If I should receive emails from African royalty trying to get their money out of war torn regions or Russian/Asian/[insert ethnicity here] women trying to come to the US, I'll have to unsubmit this and redo it.