effect of the evolution of paratext is that computers are learning to talk to each other by in some sense imitating human texts." The advertisements are the human-to-human conversation in the same email sources. A book entitled 'Spam: E-mail Inspired Poems' by Ben Myers was published in 2008 by Blackheath Books Myers claims to have been writing spam poems since 1999. The creation of spoetry is similar to Gysin and Burroughs's cut-up technique in that individual subject lines of messages are pieced together in poetic form; making the creation of spoetry an exercise not in creativity as much as in having an eye for the unexpected. The end result can be crafted into any literary form the author desires: haiku, concrete poetry, limerick, dada, and so on. Thus, spoetry is not a literary form but rather a means of creating poetry. A related concept is spam lit, where snippets of nonsensical verse and prose are embedded in spam e-mail messages. Some of the snippets are original content, others are passages or conglomerations from public-domain works. The term was coined by a member of the Poetics listserv in 2002. In August 2006, David Kestenbaum of NPR's Morning Edition broadcast a story on "Literary Spam". Kestenbaum notes that Paul Graham, a programmer, "wrote a program to find out how to best separate spam from real e-mail. To train it, he fed it a good helping of spam and a separate sample of real e-mail." Soon, spammers discovered the works of long-dead poets and writers as one way to circumvent Graham's anti-spam code. See also Flarf poetry References External links Article published in 2003 by the Harvard Business School Newspaper Article published in 2003 by BBC News Article published in 2004 by The Age (Australia) Article published in 2006 by The Guardian (United Kingdom) Anthology of Spam Poetry Spam Poetry Ben Myers' Spam Poetry Review of Ben Myers' Spam poetry book see journal entries from July 31, 2004 and April 22, 2004 by Don Hertzfeldt “Spam of the Day” in Flak Magazine’s The Splog Kristin Thomas' Spam Poetry Spoetry Site Site featuring dynamically generated rhyming couplets Article and samples published in 2007 by The Guardian Review of 'The Spam Anthology' published in 2007 by 3:AM Magazine 'The poetry of spam' September 29, 2006, Arts Hub US Andrew Gallix of The Guardian on the history of Spam Lit, July 2008 Poems extracted from spam