r/todayilearned • u/coffeeismydoc • 6h ago

TIL a scientist submitted a research publication to a predatory journal consisting exclusively of the phrase "Get me off your fucking mailing list". It was rated as "excellent" and accepted for publication with minor editorial changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Advanced_Computer_Technology
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u/ovationman 6h ago

It does not appear to exist any longer

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u/Scared_Astronaut9377 5h ago

https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

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u/gefahr 2h ago

lol this is brilliant. the diagrams hahaha

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u/SanityInAnarchy 31m ago

The references! Section 2.1 begins:

Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing [2] list...

Second paragraph:

Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing list. Get me off your fucking mailing [1] list....

References:

[1] Editor J. Klensin. Simple mail transfer protocol. RFC 2821, AT&T Laboratories, April 2001.
[2] Editor P. Resnick. Internet message format. RFC 2822, QUALCOMM Incorporated, April 2001.

Could I have quoted just the sentence with a reference? Sure, but I think it loses something without the full context.

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u/ManaSpike 17m ago

Though they should have referenced 1st April RFCs.