In article <200205220200.MAA10369 at spock.bf.rmit.edu.au>,
<hepu at spock.bf.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> [Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.]
...
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> 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing
> (ICONIP'02)
> 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning
> (SEAL'02)
> International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery
> (FSKD'02)
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Sorry to be off-topic, but they asked for it. Today I got email, similar
to ones that I have gotten multiple times. It started out:
> [Apologies if you receive this more than once]
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> ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
> Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
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Is there some connection? Are all these Fuzzy, Neural, and Data Mining
people part of a conspiracy? They seem to be widely spamming everyone
with their meeting notices. And they give no mechanism for getting off
their mailing list. (Normally I would never respond to a spammer's
removal address, but these are actual scientific societies. However they
don't even give a removal address!)
One theory I have is that they are all publicizing their meetings through
one crass and insensistive company which is doing the spamming.
I wish they would stop, at least with the email distribution (modest numbers
of newsgroup postings would be OK). Perhaps hepu at spock.bf.rmit.edu.au
could enlighten us, if that is a real person and not a robot.
----
Joe Felsenstein joe at genetics.washington.edu
Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington,
Box 357730, Seattle, WA 98195-7730 USA
