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What kind of spam says 'I want to meet you in real life today/Monday' ? I would guess dating sites, but there's no URL whatsoever in the email and those profes
by wfjackson 12y ago
What kind of spam says 'I want to meet you in real life today/Monday' ? I would guess dating sites, but there's no URL whatsoever in the email and those professors have a lot of experience with a lot of real emails that follow the format.
- danieltillett 12y ago>What kind of spam says 'I want to meet you in real life today/Monday'? Student spam :) Actually I used to get around a dozen of these emails a week from potential "students" wanting to study with me. What these people seem to be doing is sending the same email to every professor in the department (could be the whole university for all I know). They seem to be scraping the emails either from the department websites or getting them out of the corresponding author detail of my published papers. If I was not too busy I would send back a reply asking why they wanted to work with me. I have to say that I go very few coherent replies. Advice. If you actually want to study under a particular professor spend the time to actually learn about their research. Ask them intelligent questions that show that you have read their papers. If you show that you are bright and keen and have decided that this is the area you want to work in then the professor will be much, much more willing to meet with you.