A few years ago a provocative paper looking at the legal implications of the “F” word received lots of attention and notoriety. Now another paper is making the rounds, “Get Me Off Your F-ing Mailing List,” a paper accepted for publication in The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.
In 2005 a couple of computer scientists composed the paper and started sending it in response to unwanted spammy conference solicitations. The paper simply repeats the phrase “get me off your f-ing mailing list” over and over and has these great charts/graphs:
After the pdf made the rounds in the computer science community, an Australian researcher sent it in response to a spam solicitation for papers from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. Naturally the journal automatically accepted it, indicated that it had received an anonymous review rating of “excellent,” and asked for payment of a $150 fee. The paper was not published because the fee was never paid.
Awesome.
