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Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

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Re: Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

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Post by Pinegulf »

modernerd wrote: post #8

The story behind this is here: https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-lace... “After receiving a spam email from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, Dr. Peter Vamplew of Federation University Australia’s School of Engineering and Information Technology sent the anti-spam article as a reply to the spam email without any other message, expecting that they might open it and read i…

Shame he did not pay. Wonder what the impact factor of the article would have been. (I would have cited it)

Re: Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

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Post by glangdale »

modernerd wrote: post #8

The story behind this is here: https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-lace... “After receiving a spam email from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, Dr. Peter Vamplew of Federation University Australia’s School of Engineering and Information Technology sent the anti-spam article as a reply to the spam email without any other message, expecting that they might open it and read i…

There are so many stories like this. My favorite (although this one is very good) is that that a bunch of academics got together and pasted together some absolute nonsense (I assume this is from the era before SciGen) and submitted it to a conference.

When it was accepted they revealed the hoax, and the conference admins claimed that it was because these academics were obviously very good, they figured the paper was just a placeholder and would be fixed up in the final version. The only problem was that the academics in question had used fake names on the submission and the affiliation of "The Austrian Naval Academy".

(amusingly, there historically was an Austrian Naval Academy and an Austrian Navy, back during the Austro-Hungarian Empire period - Capt von Trapp of Sound of Music fame is a famous example of one of their officers)

Re: Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

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Post by glangdale »

diogenescynic wrote: post #5

Anyone had a professional mailing list or spammer add your email and have no unsubscribe feature? Had this happen and had to find the guy on LinkedIn and tell him to remove my email.

Yep. And then there are the ones that come to you via a long chain of forwards (that almost read like a history of one's early academic career) where you no longer have any ability to send mail from the account that they have on file - some of the older mailing list software made it impossible to unsubscribe if you couldn't send stuff from the old address.

Re: Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

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Post by bristleworm »

nathell wrote: post #12

This reminds me of Doug Zongker's "Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken" [0]. Sadly, Google Scholar appears to no longer be showing its citation count, although, IIRC, it used to be well in the hundreds. [0]: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

Re: Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

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Post by drfuchs »

glangdale wrote: post #13
modernerd wrote: post #8

The story behind this is here: https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-lace... “After receiving a spam email from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, Dr. Peter Vamplew of Federation University Australia’s School of Engineering and Information Technology sent the anti-spam article as a reply to the spam email without any other message, expecting that they might open it and read i…

There are so many stories like this. My favorite (although this one is very good) is that that a bunch of academics got together and pasted together some absolute nonsense (I assume this is from the era before SciGen) and submitted it to a conference. When it was accepted they revealed the hoax, and the conference admins claimed that it was because these academics were obviously very good, they figured the paper was…

For the geographically-challenged: present-day Austria is land-locked, and thus has no call for a navy, let alone a naval academy.

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Post by mnw21cam »

glangdale wrote: post #15
diogenescynic wrote: post #5

Anyone had a professional mailing list or spammer add your email and have no unsubscribe feature? Had this happen and had to find the guy on LinkedIn and tell him to remove my email.

Yep. And then there are the ones that come to you via a long chain of forwards (that almost read like a history of one's early academic career) where you no longer have any ability to send mail from the account that they have on file - some of the older mailing list software made it impossible to unsubscribe if you couldn't send stuff from the old address.

I would point out that there is nothing in the SMTP standard stopping anyone from sending stuff from any email address.

Re: Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]

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Post by gandalfian »

Double opt in required should be a law. When my email is given by mistake by similarly named people but I can't correct the mistake because only customers can contact them. Oh the iritating irony of getting security tips from the coop bank when I'm not the account holder.
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