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To-Do List as of August 16: 1 task for Technology, 1 essay and 2 proofs for Abstract Algebra, and anything that gets kicked back for revisions.

Another spam poem!

Posted by Avrila

Inspired by our special friends at 89.202.239.9:

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Scamming the Scammers Update

Posted by Avrila

I still haven’t gotten back The Acceptance Letter yet…but I’ve got the next poem ready to go just as soon as I get it. Thanks to our latest two contributors, 60.50.251.61 and 82.178.134.63.

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Scamming the Scammers

Posted by Avrila

An announcement:

I’m declaring an indefinite period of anmesty on a certain kind of spam. Because I’m launching a project to use the random-character spam to create Poetry.com poems and eventually a PublishAmerica sting manuscript, I find that I need that kind of spam.

So, those spammers who can restrain themselves from posting pharmaceutical ads and porn, and just keep it to random nonsense words, you’re welcome to help out. Oh, you still won’t get actually onto my site, but I won’t IP ban you either and you’ll get contributor credit on this project’s page. And the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that you’re accidentally helping do something good.

Spam Filter Poetry

Posted by Avrila

I had the idea last night while BSing with Teresa about writing and literary scams like PublishAmerica and Poetry.com [links go to exposes, not the actual organizations' sites, because I refuse to promote garbage]…random nonsense spam as an entry to see if they’ll take it.

At 7:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00 if anyone cares), this (without the line breaks I added “for poetry’s sake”) got caught by Akismet. Just now, I submitted it to Poetry.com. And used a spamgourmet e-mail address for it, of course.

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So…let’s see how this goes. I’m also going to see if I can gather enough for a PA sting manuscript, ’cause why not?