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Spam me blog entry.

Also, add a link to the blog entry in the spam page for an explaination.
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You can read more this at `this blog entry
<https://www.shore.co.il/blog/spam_me/>`_.

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Spam me
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:date: 2020-10-24
:summary: An experiment in spam

A while back I saw an interesting project, `Patchbay <https://patchbay.pub/>`_.
At first I wanted to use it when I run long tasks on remote machines (as the
example shows). I would obviously script the desktop part, commit it to my
`rcfiles repo <https:/www.shore.co.il/git/rcfiles>`_ and have it run on startup.
As a security/ privacy concern, I plannedd on keeping the full URL private.  So
I shelved it until I would have a proper secret management system in place for
such things.

A few months went by and I remembered that project and started to play around
with receiving such messages but sending them from a webpage. The outcome is
`shore.co.il/spam <https://www.shore.co.il/spam>`_. I'm annnouncing this on my
blog as I'm actually interested to see if I get any spam this way. The desktop
side of things is in this `rcfiles commit
<https://www.shore.co.il/git/rcfiles/commit/?id=b9732647fe865e9fc7c225b26adb6275ee435a94>`_
and the source for web page is in my `blog commit
<https://www.shore.co.il/git/blog/commit/?id=b99513ebadc5f39c77d109597804b76b79e5a2c0>`_,
both are quite public.

There isn't something technically interesting here (apart from Patchbay). But
the experiment aspect is interesting to me. I would like to see who reads my
blog and will send me messages (hopefully interesting ones). I'm not going to
advertise this in any other way. And I would like to see if I get any spam as a
result of this blog entry or from having the URL public in my Git repos. I'll
post an update in a few weeks with initial results.