Dear Colleagues, In the recent thread on unsolicited porn spam, I sent a playful response to Marj Kibby's note. I thought I was kidding, but the world of empirical research seem to contain far more than is dreamt of in all my philosophy. This morning, I received a spam under this header: --snip-- FURRY NAKED BARNYARD FRIENDS!!!!! --snip-- If anything, my fantasy of "young mammals in steamy bipedal locomotion" seems modest. These people don't stop with mammals: --snip-- ZOOS! is offering exclusive content what you will never find anywhere else. Huge breeds, Horses, STALLIONS, Snakes, Exotic animals... --snip-- This gives new meaning to that sign we used to see at airports, "NO jokes, please!" The principle behind the sign was that certain kinds of jokes may be mistaken for or confused with reality. Perhaps AIR-L is being monitored by pornographers who are harvesting our addresses while using post content to segment their markets. Unless something new and astonishing arrives, my research on the subject of spam will end here. This demonstrates that the AIR-L list remains a source of "exclusive content what you will never find anywhere else." Best regards, Ken -- Ken Friedman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Technology and Knowledge Management Norwegian School of Management Visiting Professor Advanced Research Institute School of Art and Design Staffordshire University