Funny, I wrote an article about why people don't cite Wikipedia as a source for information in scholary papers when in fact Scholary papers can fall to the same trap of being "not reliable" the same way wikipedia is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989531 not so long ago
Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]
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#42The 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…
Guess what? Ethics page is 404 - http://www.ijact.org/index.php/ijact/ethics Intentional or not, it is an irony
Link to this is on the right sidebar, for those wondering: http://www.ijact.org/index.php/ijact/
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#43I've been in the habit for years of making liberal use of the catch-all feature of email to make up email addresses unique to everything. This makes it easy to add NDR bounces to specific email addresses that end up on f-ing mailing lists I don't want or for which the address was sold/given to other groups (political parties are the WORST about this!).
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#44Or: mysql: it had better be good.
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#45This 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
The only improvement that could be made to that masterpeice is to include an actual image of a chicken...
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why would that prevent them from having a small navy? Assuming some country is happy for them to pay to have a port somewhere. Although they don't it wouldn't surprise me much to learn that they did have one despite being land-locked.
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#47Should have used pdflatex with
\usepackage{microtype}
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#48The 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 that modernerd linked to has links at the bottom, in the "Appendix". The reviewer report is here: https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/review-form....
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the geographically-challenged: present-day Austria is land-locked, and thus has no call for a navy, let alone a naval academy.
Why would that prevent them from having a small navy? Assuming some country is happy for them to pay to have a port somewhere. Although they don't it wouldn't surprise me much to learn that they did have one despite being land-locked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navies_of_landlocked_countries
Bolivia has been landlocked since 1904, but has a navy with 5,000 personnel (patrolling the country's many large rivers and lakes) and... a naval academy! Which Peru grants access to the sea.
Of course, you'll note Austria isn't on that list.
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#50Anyone 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.
I get a ton of UCE, probably because we use easy to guess email addresses (fname.lname@co.com) and I have a title that implies I control a budget. I would say maybe 1 in 50 complies with the CAN SPAM Act (US) or mandatory opt in rules (EU). Perhaps 1 in 25 has a "click here to unsubscribe". Occasionally, the author will have a "reply with unsubscribe and I'll take you off my list", which I suspect is just to confirm you're there to try a slightly different tactic on you. My junk/ignore rule has a couple of thousand entries (and I carry it with me from job to job). These days I find myself banning whole domains because these frauds have taken to sending multiple spams with different From addys in the same domain specifically to try and get past Outlooks default of only adding that sender to the block list.