Spam : a shadow history of the Internet
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- ISBN: 9780262018876 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 026201887X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780262313933 (electronic bk.)
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xxiii, 270 pages ; 25 cm. - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [229-254)and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The shadow history of the internet -- Ready for next message : 1971-1994 -- Make money fast : 1995-2003 -- The victim cloud : 2003-2010 -- Conclusion. |
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Subject: | Spam (Electronic mail) History |
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Spam : A Shadow History of the Internet
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Table of Contents
Spam : A Shadow History of the Internet
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Acknowledgments | p. xi | |
Introduction: The Shadow History of the Internet | p. xiii | |
Prelude: The Global Spam Machine | p. xiii | |
The Technological Drama of Spam, Community, and Attention | p. xvi | |
The Three Epochs of Spam | p. xxii | |
1 | Ready for Next Message: 1971-1994 | p. 1 |
Spam and the Invention of Online Community | p. 1 | |
Galapagos | p. 1 | |
The Supercommunity and the Reactive Public | p. 5 | |
Royalists, Anarchists, Parliamentarians, Technolibertarians | p. 11 | |
The Wizards | p. 17 | |
In the Clean Room: Trust and Protocols | p. 19 | |
Interrupting the Polylogue | p. 29 | |
The Charivari | p. 34 | |
Complex Primitives: The Usenet Community, Spam, and Newbies | p. 34 | |
Shaming and Flaming: Antispam, Vigilantism, and the Charivari | p. 43 | |
For Free Information Via Email | p. 48 | |
The Year September Never Ended: Framing Spam's Advent | p. 48 | |
This Vulnerable Medium: The Green Card Lottery | p. 53 | |
2 | Make Money Fast: 1995-2003 | p. 63 |
Introduction: The First Ten Moves | p. 63 | |
The Entrepreneurs | p. 67 | |
Let's Get Brutal: Premier Services and the Infrastructure of Spam | p. 71 | |
Building Antispam | p. 81 | |
The Cancelbot Wars | p. 81 | |
Spam and Its Metaphors | p. 86 | |
The Charivari in Power: Nanae | p. 93 | |
You Know the Situation in Africa: Nigeria and 419 | p. 101 | |
The Art of Misdirection | p. 110 | |
Robot-Readability | p. 110 | |
The Coevolution of Search and Spam | p. 113 | |
3 | The Victim Cloud: 2003-20 10 | p. 125 |
Filtering: Scientists and Hackers | p. 125 | |
Making Spam Scientific, Part I | p. 125 | |
Making Spam Hackable | p. 133 | |
Poisoning: The Reinvention of Spam | p. 143 | |
Inventing Litspam | p. 143 | |
The New Suckers | p. 152 | |
"New Twist in Affect": Splogging, Content Farms, and Social Spam | p. 155 | |
The Popular Vote | p. 155 | |
The Quantified Audience | p. 161 | |
In Your Own Words: Spamming and Human-Machine Collaborations | p. 166 | |
The Botnets | p. 171 | |
The Marketplace | p. 175 | |
Inside the Library of Babel: The Storm Worm | p. 180 | |
Surveying Storm: Making Spam Scientific, Part II | p. 184 | |
The Overload: Militarizing Spam | p. 187 | |
Criminal Infrastructure | p. 192 | |
Conclusion | p. 199 | |
The Use of Information Technology Infrastructure ... | p. 199 | |
... To Exploit Existing Aggregation of Human Attention | p. 201 | |
Notes | p. 205 | |
Bibliography | p. 229 | |
Index | p. 255 |