spam, if you can't lick 'em...
When I was a kid, I had a stamp collection. I'll never forget the thrill of getting a Tanna Tuvu stamp. I am starting to notice that my spam is coming from similar exotic locales. For example, one today came from "chinahot" but by way of ".kr". I can't even begin to guess where .kr is. So I am thinking of starting a spam collection, of exotic .somethings. Who knows, perhaps it will be worth money someday to a future Brewster Kahle. Would someone please point me to a list of Internet suffixes? And friends, no "help" please, I get enough spam on my own Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________
Barry, Country code Top Level Domains, AKA ccTLDs can be found here: http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld.htm kr = Republic of Korea Alex -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:48 AM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] spam, if you can't lick 'em... When I was a kid, I had a stamp collection. I'll never forget the thrill of getting a Tanna Tuvu stamp. I am starting to notice that my spam is coming from similar exotic locales. For example, one today came from "chinahot" but by way of ".kr". I can't even begin to guess where .kr is. So I am thinking of starting a spam collection, of exotic .somethings. Who knows, perhaps it will be worth money someday to a future Brewster Kahle. Would someone please point me to a list of Internet suffixes? And friends, no "help" please, I get enough spam on my own Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l
Barry Wellman wrote:
I am starting to notice that my spam is coming from similar exotic locales. For example, one today came from "chinahot" but by way of ".kr". I can't even begin to guess where .kr is.
It's South Korea
So I am thinking of starting a spam collection, of exotic .somethings. Who knows, perhaps it will be worth money someday to a future Brewster Kahle. Would someone please point me to a list of Internet suffixes?
http://www1.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain
I'm not exactly sure why people get bent out of shape by Spam. I find some interest, exotic/amusing/commercial/sociological/scatalogical from about one out of every 10 spam messages--not too far off the percentage for most email lists I inhabit ;-) and roughly the same percentage I get from "junk mail". I agree, that the lack of real cost in distributing Spam would, without some continuing counterpressure, result in it becoming overwhelming, but I must say I don't find it the problem others seem to, at least so long as I have my "d" finger intact... MG
Barry Wellman wrote:
I am starting to notice that my spam is coming from similar exotic locales. For example, one today came from "chinahot" but by way of ".kr". I can't even begin to guess where .kr is.
It's South Korea
So I am thinking of starting a spam collection, of exotic .somethings. Who knows, perhaps it will be worth money someday to a future Brewster Kahle. Would someone please point me to a list of Internet suffixes?
http://www1.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain
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Hello, Michael Gurstein wrote
I'm not exactly sure why people get bent out of shape by Spam.
Most spam is a mere annoyance, easily deleted without another thought. However, if you view heterosexual porn as exploitative of women, seeing/reading uninvited porn or descriptions of porn on a daily or semi-weekly basis moves beyond annoyance and into the realm of a continual "hit" of sexism. A comparison might be if neo-Nazis began sending daily/weekly spam to advertise their politics or organization or products for sale. Pictures included. Sure, it's just spam and you can delete it, but after a while it can feel like a regular beating-down. Cheers, Cassandra o::-::-::-::-::-::-::-::-::-::-::o Cassandra Van Buren, Ph.D. New Media and Communication Technology Department of Communication University of Utah 255 S. Central Campus Drive LNCO 2400 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 801.581.7268 voice || 801.581.6255 fax http://www.utah.edu/newmedia/cvb cvb@utah.edu
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