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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 kjs3 »

parvenu74 wrote: post #43

I'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!).

Right there with you. There are exceptions in all the (US, at least) rules for spam email, spam sms, do-not-call list, etc. for political parties, and boy do they take advantage.

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

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Post by squarefoot »

have_faith wrote: post #46
drfuchs wrote: post #17

Earlier 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.

Many moons ago I reconnected with an old friend who moved to Switzerland years before; just imagine my face when he told me he was working for a Swiss shipowner:).

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

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Post by kjs3 »

mcv wrote: post #28
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.

Cut-n-paste into Google Translate to fix the unreadable problem. Interesting they made it that easy to cancel.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

drfuchs wrote: post #17
glangdale wrote: post #13

Earlier 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.

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

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Post by jeltz »

doodpants wrote: post #48
Jenz wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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....

I love how everything other than the presentation is either Excellent or Very Good while the presentation is just Good.

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

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Post by gyulai »

drfuchs wrote: post #17
glangdale wrote: post #13

Earlier 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.

Nitpick: A navy doesn't necessarily need a harbour directly at the high seas. Austria has had a navy with patrol vessels on the river danube from which they could theoretically reach the high seas until 2006. Also: Military installations on foreign soil are not all that uncommon (as I'm sure Americans can appreciate). I believe that Austria has had vessels in Trieste, even when Trieste was already part of Italy and Austria was already landlocked.

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

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Post by scott_s »

bristleworm wrote: post #16
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

A classic. For those who haven't seen it before, it's worth watching the whole thing.

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

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Post by RandomBacon »

OJFord wrote: post #38
glangdale wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Use your own domain for email and watch the 'hacker' spam roll in.

I do, and get no such spam.

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

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Post by JadeNB »

userbinator wrote: post #45
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

The only improvement that could be made to that masterpeice is to include an actual image of a chicken...

> include an actual image of a chicken...

ASCII art, made up of repetitions of the word 'chicken'.

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

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Post by andrewflnr »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #9
paulie_a wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just ask them honest questions that are insulting to their ability to recruit

Can you elaborate?

Probably along the lines of "This position is for a front end developer with 5 years of React, but my resume clearly indicates that I do .NET backend work. What made you think I was a good fit?"
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