let's talk about spam

[tyrsalvia]

What are the ethical problems inherent to spam? I've been thinking about ritual spam, something where interacting with the spam itself lends energy to a larger intent of some sort, and I'm curious what other people might think of the ethics involved in such a thing.

Comments

[epistolarysmack]

Well, lets see, do you really want to play with the kind of "energy" that spam is likely to generate from its recipients (a.k.a. utter blinding rage)?

[tyrsalvia]

What I had in mind was sort of creating a spam voodoo doll by having the spam act as a representation of something I think is bad, and the act of having other people find it irritating and delete it would help bring about the destruction of the linked intent.

this seems like it might be tangentially relevant to your idea:

[metaphorge]

http://www.waningmoon.com/xaturing/intro.html