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01/26/2004 Archived Entry: "spam"

I've been getting this same spam email over and over lately from the Rwrd Dept. It promises me that

You have an Unclaimed Package in our Security Vault Area
waiting for release and delivery.

The contents of your Package are CONFIRMED
to be one of the following Brand Name items:

Description of
Vault Holdings: - DAEWOO MINI-TELEVISION
- AHNSER HANDHELD MODERN PDA
- SMART-CAM DIGITAL CAMERA

That's some good stuff. And I could use a digital camera (if it's a video digital camera). But rather than claim my reward, which I'm promised won't cost me shipping, handling, or a release fee, I'd rather use this email for pedagogical purposes. I want it to serve as inspiration for a writing assignment.

Spam Assignment One
Pick someone in the class.
Find out a few things about that person (interests, desires, fetishes).
Design a series of reward packages you would send that person based on the research (the interview) you conducted.
Spam that person with your results. Send your emails many times throughout the day and throughout the night. When your audience responds, you have reached your rhetorical effect.

Or a variation would be for everyone to jot down their interests, desires, fetishes and put the results in a hat or box. Then let other students randomly draw entries and design a series of reward spams for the anonymous individual they've drawn. Instead of spamming the one person, students would spam the class listserv. Later we can guess who is who.

Very Breton-ish for a writing assignment, no?

Posted by charlita @ 02/06/2004 11:53 AM EST