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Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- rememberlenny 7y agoIs there one of these for recruiters?
- cenal 7y agoI have an alpha version of a product designed to block recruiter spam. If you want to test it sign up at http://www.joinjune.com http://www.joinjune.com
- paulie_a 7y agoI just ask them honest questions that are insulting to their ability to recruit
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoCan you elaborate?
- andrewflnr 7y agoProbably 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?"
- paulie_a 7y agoYou nailed it exactly.
- SimonB_ 7y agoI notice the Mail Avenger link at the top. > 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.
- diogenescynic 7y agoAnyone 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.
- glangdale 7y agoYep. And then there are the ones that come to you via a long chain of forwards (that almost read like a history of one's early academic career) where you no longer have any ability to send mail from the account that they have on file - some of the older mailing list software made it impossible to unsubscribe if you couldn't send stuff from the old address.
- mnw21cam 7y agoI would point out that there is nothing in the SMTP standard stopping anyone from sending stuff from any email address.
- glangdale 7y agoWhile 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.
- mnw21cam 7y agoOh, it most definitely still is A Thing. There have been a few notable attempts to stop it happening, but none of them have really worked completely, and they only apply to some from-domains.
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoO'rly? Try sending a mail from satya.nadella@microsoft.com to anyone you know.
- modernerd 7y agoThe story behind this is here: https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-laced-anti-spam-paper/ https://scholarlyoa.com/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-lace... “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. 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.”
- Pinegulf 7y agoShame he did not pay. Wonder what the impact factor of the article would have been. (I would have cited it)
- dijit 7y agoI strongly suspect that it would not have really been published.
- tduberne 7y agoI am pretty sure it would have been, as "published" here simply means uploading the pdf here: http://www.ijact.org/index.php/ijact http://www.ijact.org/index.php/ijact Having the papers there makes it look more like a "real" journal, and potentially makes the author decide to submit more in the future. I would even assume a lot of the authors "publishing" in such journals are perfectly aware of their quality, and do this just to increase their "peer-reviewed publications" stats. It is very difficult to separate those from legitimate journals on a publication list. For those not in academia: there are 100s of those journals. I get invitations to publish in such journals or conferences almost daily on my professional address. Some of them have the very same formatting as the ones in the article (same ugly fonts and colors).
- glangdale 7y ago
- davalapar 7y agoJesus christ the graphs are even borderline hilarious
- nathell 7y agoThis 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://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
- bristleworm 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
- scott_s 7y agoA classic. For those who haven't seen it before, it's worth watching the whole thing.
- userbinator 7y agoThe only improvement that could be made to that masterpeice is to include an actual image of a chicken...
- JadeNB 7y ago> include an actual image of a chicken... ASCII art, made up of repetitions of the word 'chicken'.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agoDo you know what software was used for the graph on p. 3? Usually I'm using GraphViz, but the arrows are not as nice.
- jomar 7y agoIt looks like Kernighan's Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_language
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agoThank you. I had a brief look at the existing implementations like the GNU PIC and and unfortunately the arrows lack the finesse of the original.
- jevgeni 7y agoWe need the same but for newsletter modal ads on websites. And newsletters themselves.
- gandalfian 7y agoDouble 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.
- mcv 7y agoI'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.
- kjs3 7y agoCut-n-paste into Google Translate to fix the unreadable problem. Interesting they made it that easy to cancel.
- rbho94 7y agoincredibly well said
- walterkrankheit 7y agoDid they get off the fucking mailing list?
- chmaynard 7y agoThe three certainties of modern life: death, taxes, and unsolicited marketing emails.
- James-primitive 7y agoI think he wants you off his mailing list.
- thasaleni 7y agoFunny, 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: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989531 not so long ago
- parvenu74 7y agoI'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!).
- kjs3 7y agoRight 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.
- Vlad_Zamfor 7y agoOr: mysql: it had better be good.
- imurray 7y agoShould have used pdflatex with \usepackage{microtype} in the preamble. The hyphenation would have been much nicer.
- musicale 7y agoWhen Kohler and Maziéres win the Turing award, we'll know why.