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martyb
on Sunday November 23 2014, @03:05PM
from the how-many-7-letter-words-start-with-"F"? dept.
from the how-many-7-letter-words-start-with-"F"? dept.
The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, an open-access journal some accuse of being predatory due to its lack of actual editorial judgment of any kind, has recently accepted for publication a paper entitled Get me off Your F****** Mailing List [pdf]. (warning: NSFW language, in case it wasn't obvious)
This raises an interesting point about open-access journals: How does one police the quality of the work when some are faking the editorial process entirely?
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Everything will be just tickety-boo today.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @07:36PM
Easiest reading i had for a long while. Lots of good points too. Even a really cool self expressing and self populating graph. Maybe a little lite on references but it did have the two most important ones for emailing anything in the modern internet world. I think the most important message of the paper was "Get me off your Fucking Mailing List."
(Score: 2) by hubie on Monday November 24 2014, @03:18AM
I laughed out loud. My favorite were the figures.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Monday November 24 2014, @02:46PM
Yes! Interestingly the email addresses of the authors were not included, making me wonder: how exactly they would know which addresses to remove from their mailing list?