The story behind this is here: <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-laced-anti-spam-paper/" rel="nofollow">https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-lace...</a><p>“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 it, but not that it would be considered for publication.<p>To his surprise, the journal accepted the paper and sent him an acceptance email that had two PDF attachments. One was a formal statement of acceptance and the second was the reviewer report.”
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.<p>[0]: <a href="https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf</a>
I notice the Mail Avenger link at the top.<p>> Mail Avenger is a highly-configurable, MTA-independent SMTP server daemon. It lets users run messages through filters like ClamAV and SpamAssassin during SMTP transactions, so the server can reject mail before assuming responsibility for its delivery. Other unique features include TCP SYN fingerprint and network route recording, verification of sender addresses through SMTP callbacks, SPF (sender policy framework) as a general policy language, qmail-style control over both SMTP-level behavior and local delivery of extension addresses, mail-bomb protection, integration with kernel firewalls, and more.
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.
Anyone 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'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!).
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: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989531" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989531</a> not so long ago