Sunday, November 23, 2014

The "Call for Pagers"


This is an actual solicitation I just received:

ijcsiet journal call for pagers november 2014

International Journal of Computer Science Information and Engg., Technologies

INVITATION FOR SUB PAPERS

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Dear Authors,

We would like to invite you to submit quality Research Papers by e-mail editor@ijcsiet.com or ijcsiet@yahoo.com or both. The International Journal of Computer Science Infor! mation and Engineering Technologies (IJCSIET).. As per the guidelines submit a research paper related to one of the themes of the Journals, as per the guidelines.

These solicitations seem to be competing to see who can have the stupidest-named journal and the most typographical errors in a single message.

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4 comments:

  1. Steve Watson10:19 AM, November 23, 2014

    Um, what's "infor! mation"? Inquiring minds want to know!

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  2. Takis Konstantopoulos6:57 AM, November 24, 2014

    I guess the journal is one of the scam ones coming from the Indian subcontinent. My reasoning? Their use of language "As per the guidelines submit a research paper". The (to me) funny sounding expression "as per" comes from that region.

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  3. Kerry Liles10:29 AM, November 24, 2014

    Perhaps you already spotted this on slash dot, but in case you missed it:

    http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/11/22/1734254/profanity-laced-academic-paper-exposes-scam-journal

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  4. Unknown6:08 PM, November 24, 2014

    They are clear!y VERY ser!ious about Com!puter Sc!ence & Eng!neer!ng!
    Submi! you're paper as per instruction, Shallit!

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