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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 dijit »

Pinegulf wrote: post #11
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)

I strongly suspect that it would not have really been published.

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

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Post by glangdale »

mnw21cam wrote: post #19
glangdale wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

While a good deal of our entertainment circa 1993 (Computer Science Honours, Sydney University) centered around exploiting this delightful fact (close second: unattended terminals), I had long since figured that forging emails off a open SMTP port wasn't really still A Thing.

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

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Post by Jenz »

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…

I would love to see the reviewer report.

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

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Post by mcv »

Jenz wrote: post #26
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…

I would love to see the reviewer report.

"The article makes a convincing argument that is supported by the data."

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

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Post by mcv »

gandalfian wrote: post #20

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.

I've had this problem with a Netflix subscription in a foreign language. I kept getting mail for it, but couldn't read what it was about, and couldn't easily opt out. The only option was to reset password, login, change the language, and then cancel the subscription.

At least I was fortunate I could easily cancel the subscription. You can't do that with bank accounts.

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

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Post by kaybe »

Jenz wrote: post #26
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…

I would love to see the reviewer report.

https://scholarlyoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/reviewer-...

I'm not sure whether that's the full report though.

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

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Post by mnw21cam »

glangdale wrote: post #24
mnw21cam wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

While a good deal of our entertainment circa 1993 (Computer Science Honours, Sydney University) centered around exploiting this delightful fact (close second: unattended terminals), I had long since figured that forging emails off a open SMTP port wasn't really still A Thing.

Oh, it most definitely still is A Thing. There have been a few notable attempts to stop it happening, but none of them have really worked completely, and they only apply to some from-domains.
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