Stop Spamming Me!

As a yearly tradition, I got invitations for paper submission as well as reviewing for the WMSCI conference. Please, please, stop spamming me! The following "translation" of the solicitation letter is taken from someone who share the same feeling as I do. For those of you who don't know the scam: check out this website: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ and make sure you stick around to read the incredible stories behind this wonderful tool.

Without further adieu, here is the full text: (http://jerrytalton.blogspot.com/2006/03/prof-nagib-callaos-translation.html):

Dear colleagues [Dear marks]:

As a response to the many requests we have received, the Organizing Committee of WMSCI 2006 (The 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics) has decided to extend the deadline for papers and abstracts submission to April 4, 2006. If you have not already done so, please submit your abstract or your paper through the Conference web site. [No one has been stupid enough to fall for our scam this year, so we're taking another shot at soliciting submissions to our fake conference with this formal-looking email.]

The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 4 of JSCI Journal. 12 issues of volumes 1 and 2 of the Journal have been sent to approximately 200 universities and research libraries, and 6 issues of Volume 3 (2005) will be sent to a larger number of libraries. Promotional, free subscriptions, for 2 years, are being considered for the organizations of the Journal's authors. [We assume that if we write the word "journal" enough times and throw some numbers in there, it'll look like we have a shred of credibility.]

Submitted papers will go through a two-tier reviewing process: a double-blinded and an open one. Submitted papers or extended abstracts will be sent to at least three reviewers, selected by the Organizing Committee, for their respective double-blinded review. Submitted papers or extended abstracts will also be sent to 1-3 reviewers suggested by the author(s) for their open, non-blinded, review. [Your submission will not be reviewed in any way. In fact, you can write a program to generate a completely nonsensical paper and we will still accept it, because we are the diploma mill of scholarly conferences.] Both kinds of reviewing will support the acceptance process for the selection of the papers to be presented at the conference, as well as the selection of the best 10%-20% of the papers that will be included in the JSCI journal. [Even we don't pretend to know what this sentence means, but it sounded good when we were stoned so we went with it.]

Submissions from both academia and industry are encouraged. Research papers, case studies, lessons learned, status reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains are all welcome. [We'll take anything. Really. Write us a story about your pet parakeet, and we'll publish it.]

If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let us know about a suitable time for you and we will inform you if it is feasible for us. [You don't even have to spell parakeet correctly.]

Best Regards [Suckers!],

WMSCI 2006 General Chair

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