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08-14-2007, 10:05 AM
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Scribe
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Are Spammers Frustrated Writers
Have you ever looked at some of the text within spam emails? Today I got
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Originally Posted by Spammer
Partly stone, partly the absence of stone,
Is it almost honey, is it snow?
I draw near to one of them, the lowest,
To mark that square, perhaps: were Mère and Père
Green lilac buds appear that won't survive
I bring down a bit of its light
And then I go on until I am beneath an archway,
Away, my songs, must we go
My keyhole blows a gale
Sits at the limit of a kind of world
Blurring the terrain,
I seek, above all, in the wandering
How can they get the point of how a world
Pallid waste where no radiant fathomers,
Calling me to you with wild gesturings
Thinking of your abiding spirit brings
Out of the road into a way across
Given by nature will soak into it.
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08-14-2007, 11:27 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
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Sounds computer generated. Probably to include an assortment of words to foil spam filters.
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08-14-2007, 11:31 AM
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Scribe
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I kind of figured they wouldn't be writing stuff especially for spamming. I've always assumed it's snippets of books and short stories. Maybe it's Burroughs doing cut ups from beyond the grave.
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08-14-2007, 04:44 PM
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Profound Writer
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If a computer can generate the quoted prose, then books will be next and we’ll all be out of a job. I wonder what comments those lines would have raised in the poetry section?
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08-14-2007, 04:47 PM
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Scribe
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Originally Posted by HarryG
If a computer can generate the quoted prose, then books will be next and we’ll all be out of a job. I wonder what comments those lines would have raised in the poetry section?
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One way to find out...
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08-14-2007, 04:50 PM
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Profound Writer
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They´d sus it out and get angry, there have been a few bannings in that section of late.
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08-14-2007, 04:52 PM
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Scribe
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After some quick googling, it's actually a cut up of "The Only Rose"
by Yves Bonnefoy
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08-14-2007, 04:55 PM
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Profound Writer
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Thank God for that. Our jobs are safe, then.
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08-14-2007, 04:56 PM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
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Wow, impressive.
Well, that's what Spam is, chopped up stuff.
What makes you think that?
What's funny about the current state of poetry (zoo train wreck in a shithouse) is that the better computers get at writing poetry, the more "poets" are writing work that sounds the same way. We passed the limit of being able to tell the difference years ago.
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