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

[John Hopkins via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

lol, Geert, this seems imminently recursive as you are likely an AI bot and are 
spoofing nettime subscribers with this posting ... or not. The links to an 
unfamiliar server for a downloadable txt file: I wouldn't touch it if you paid 
me 100 bitcoin. Why not upload samples to your inhouse INC server?

"on the internet, no one knows you are a dog ..."

p(doom) ≥ 1

so it goes.

JH

On 12/6/23 10:16 AM, Geert Lovink via nettime-l wrote:
> Of course we could try. Here is the intro and then the messages below it can be read here:https://swertz.org/index.php/s/W2S7scPHEDtr7Lo.
>   
>
> Dear Nettimers,
>
> what kind of spam do you receive? As the whole list drama of the past
> period centred around ’spam control’ as the main argument of Google,
> Microsoft and a few others to kill independent email servers, I started
> to become curious, again, about the spam phenomena itself. Here at the
> Institute of Network Cultures we receive a decent amount. So much that
> we started to oversee crucial emails of interested parties and people in
>   our work, seeking collaboration.
>
> Lately I also discovered a new genre, perhaps related to the rise of AI:
>   personalized machine-generated letters that are customized in such a
> way that you start to get confused: is this a person, genuinely
> interested in our work, or a machine? Usually, they oversee one or two
> details and then you know… We have an .org domain and are very obviously
>   not a company but very visibly part of a Dutch (large) non-profit
> public education institution ~(hva.nl<http://hva.nl/>).
>   If this is not taken into account you know they did not even look for a
>   second on our website: it’s spam. However, they politely come back to
> you, addressing you in an informal way, a few days later, insisting they
>   want make a personal appointment, pretending there is a already some
> kind of personal contact or connection. Intimidating and uncanny. Same
> happens with invoices.  But then… there are still the classic ones from
> China, which, in contrast, are a relief to read.
>
> Best, Geert

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