tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post9136807042304481344..comments2023-12-30T01:23:38.125-08:00Comments on Riddled: Still working through the backlog of irritating mockademic-journal spamHamish Mackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-19598503107551237512017-07-23T18:06:32.807-07:002017-07-23T18:06:32.807-07:00Part of me wants to send them a learned exegesis o...Part of me wants to send them a learned exegesis on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercises_in_Style" rel="nofollow">"Exercises in Style"</a>.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-32579260374263814832017-07-23T17:35:15.467-07:002017-07-23T17:35:15.467-07:00I'd interpret Novel Physiotherapy as something...I'd interpret Novel Physiotherapy as something like deep-tissue massage on <i>Ulysses</i>.H. Rumbold, Master Barberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584302712998121919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-5349798310540289312017-07-23T16:36:29.670-07:002017-07-23T16:36:29.670-07:00That's very personal and creepy. I have never ...<i>That's very personal and creepy. I have never experienced the like,</i><br><br>The Goofle tells me that "Academic Star" and "David Publishing" -- both from China -- have been Creepy Stalker scammers since at least 2012. They don't seem to have updated their spam templates in that time, apart from occasional changes to the fake US addresses where they claim to be based.<br><br>Academic Star's spam includes the ominous words <b>"we wish to become your friends if necessary"</b>, making it easy to find examples that people have put on their blogs.<br><br>"David Publishing" received an accolade in the form of a dedicated blogpost at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111030614/https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/10/15/david-publishing-company-a-massive-spammer-from-china/" rel="nofollow">ScholarlyOA</a>.<br>----------------------------------------<br>Anyways... because Reddy Sekhar (ScientificFederation) is an incompetent cockwomble, he left a spreadsheet on the Intertubes containing a list of the eedjits who registered for his scamferences for 2016-2017:<br>https://web.archive.org/web/20170723224531/http://scientificfederation.com/cms/registrations.php<br>-- including e-addresses and the varying amounts they paid. Also includes his own and his colleagues' email details. Massively duplicated, and with lots of "test" entries, so fewer than 300 names are left after removing all those. Still, I don't know if I can be arsed writing a bot that e-mails each person on the list to tell them that they were suckers. They may have worked that out already after arriving in Dubai or whereever and finding only another dozen people.<br />Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-3458776567558661422017-07-23T05:34:46.013-07:002017-07-23T05:34:46.013-07:00I am sad not to have attended the conference mysel...I am sad not to have attended the conference myself. The social program included an option for a tour of the Tartu Beer Museum.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-22053275084742371912017-07-23T05:10:07.482-07:002017-07-23T05:10:07.482-07:00*Ah, I remember when the big Presidential scandal ...*Ah, I remember when the big Presidential scandal was when the idjits were complaining on the TV that Obama asked for Dijon mustard to go with his hamburger or sandwich or something, and, good Lord, the man ate arugula, what a filthy elitist! I mean, Obama had plenty of flaws from my perspective, but... jeez...JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10460254031729129002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-48038069348268342082017-07-23T05:08:10.260-07:002017-07-23T05:08:10.260-07:00I remember trying a few cans of Spam back in Unive...<i>I remember trying a few cans of Spam back in University days. It needed liberal quantities of HP sauce or L&P sauce to cut through the fat, but I was already prepared with those English-cuisine condiments to handle the hostel food, and by those standards there was nothing wrong with Spam.</i><br /><br />I used some "fancy" mustard*, as I recall. That winter we were effectively snowed in, and food was what we had on hand (some stocks of rice and lentils, and some greens from the garden that I dug up through the snow) and what we could buy at the little Korean-owned corner market a couple corners away, so I certainly wasn't picky. Beer was included, of course, though the first half of the break I merely pitched in, because I wasn't old enough; December 30th and afterward, I could walk in and buy the stuff <i>myself</i>. Ha!<br /><br />We also (I kid you not) found an old dust covered VHS there about Sakharov (called <i>Sakharov</i>) that was one of the worst movies with the worst cinematography I have ever seen. Andy still remembers the name we gave it, "Opposite of Art." (We also watched a lot of Tarkovsky that winter, which is actually art.)<br /><br /><i>I was co-author on a presentation that a colleague gave last week to a linguistics conference in Estonia. The first spam arrived the next day -- claiming to be immensely impressed by the calibre of the talk, eager for the chance to publish a version of it in the highly-prestigious Journal of Modern Education Review ("a professional journal published worldwide by Academic Star" ... "an American academic publishing group" that operates out of China).</i><br /><br />That's very personal and creepy. I have never experienced the like, but I always went to low-rent conferences like <i>The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900</i>. I always enjoyed that one in particular (I also went to regional Slavic conferences) and made a lot of friends and was very well received, plus it was a great excuse to visit Louisville, which is a fine city, despite being (sort of) in the South. I was always sort of chicken to go to ASSEES.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10460254031729129002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-17191245952357350822017-07-23T03:55:40.558-07:002017-07-23T03:55:40.558-07:00Not to forget the sea-pig holothurians (squeee!), ...Not to forget the sea-pig holothurians (squeee!), pycnogonids and giant amphipods.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-57606413095573440322017-07-23T03:47:58.264-07:002017-07-23T03:47:58.264-07:00You're thinking of sea-hags, rhwombat. A vibra...You're thinking of sea-hags, rhwombat. A vibrant ecosystem of sea-hags and bone-eating snotworms.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-60540894835246647562017-07-23T03:32:08.152-07:002017-07-23T03:32:08.152-07:00Publish or perish becomes publish and perish. Hyde...Publish or perish becomes publish and perish. Hyderabad must resemble the floor of an oceanic trench, with "science-shaped" lampreys feasting on the decaying corpses of knowledge whales drifting down from 2 k above.rhwombathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12965197378050915417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-73034735573291330512017-07-23T03:00:23.902-07:002017-07-23T03:00:23.902-07:00You are quite the Renaissance man. I do hope you w...You are quite the Renaissance man. I do hope you will keep us posted on developments in the cutting-edge field of gastroenterophthalmology. (That's eye care for people with their heads up their asses, right?)Inconstant Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02511016008975645957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-57737422087583567732017-07-22T23:52:30.916-07:002017-07-22T23:52:30.916-07:00I remember trying a few cans of Spam back in Unive...I remember trying a few cans of Spam back in University days. It needed liberal quantities of HP sauce or L&P sauce to cut through the fat, but I was already prepared with those English-cuisine condiments to handle the hostel food, and by those standards there was nothing wrong with Spam.<br /><br />I was co-author on a presentation that a colleague gave last week to a linguistics conference in Estonia. The first spam arrived <b>the next day</b> -- claiming to be immensely impressed by the calibre of the talk, eager for the chance to publish a version of it in the highly-prestigious Journal of Modern Education Review ("a professional journal published worldwide by Academic Star" ... "an American academic publishing group" that operates out of China).<br /><br />Some spammers seem to use software scripts to scrape e-addresses from conference websites. Others hire teams of hackers because there are some things that software scripts won't do. We hates them, precious, yes we do.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814819843269246078.post-74810152814926065362017-07-22T21:51:19.959-07:002017-07-22T21:51:19.959-07:00Those spam dishes all look pretty terrifying, espe...Those spam dishes all look pretty terrifying, especially the spam with (yech) lima beans. (Also, what are "fried candied sweets?" Part of a balanced supper, it seems.) But I admit to actually liking the stuff on the occasions I have tried it. (One winter my friend and housemate Andy and I were stuck in Olympia over the winter break because of three feet of snow that effectively shut down all transportation for weeks. I got him can of spam (I had heard that he liked it) as one of his Christmas presents and he insisted that I try a "spamwich.")<br /><br />My umich address seems to have an excellent spam filter; I do get spam at my sdf address (somebody got hold of it somehow), but it is mostly boring stuff from "Amazoncom" and random gmail addresses claiming to be UPS and so on. Yawn.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10460254031729129002noreply@blogger.com