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Conference Spam

By pontiff on December 17, 2008.

Amusing, in a twisted an irritating sort of way.

Who's on first:

Dear scholars:

Here is an invitation letter from 6th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management(ICSSSM'09) which will be held in Xiamen in June next year. We hope you can submit your new papers and exchange new ideas with us. There is a call for letter in attachment. And if you're interested in,please login our conference website: http://sm2.xmu.edu.cn/icsssm09/index.htm.

Looking forward to your participation!

ICSSSM09 COMMITTEE

--
Thank you again for your contribution.
Sincerely,
icsssm09 Organizing Committee
Email: icsssm09@gmail.com

What's on second:

Please remove me from your email list.

dabacon (at) cs.washington.edu
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 AM, icsssm09 wrote:
> Dear scholars:
>
> Here is an invitation letter from 6th International Conference on
> Service Systems and Service Management(ICSSSM'09) which will be held in
> Xiamen in June next year. We hope you can submit your new papers and
> exchange new ideas with us. There is a call for letter in attachment. And if
> you're interested in,please login our conference website:
> http://sm2.xmu.edu.cn/icsssm09/index.htm.
>
> Looking forward to your participation!
>
>
> ICSSSM09 COMMITTEE
>
> --
> Thank you again for your contribution.
> Sincerely,
> icsssm09 Organizing Committee
> Email: icsssm09@gmail.com
>

I don't know's on third:


ICSSSM09

Dear Author(s):

Thank you for submitting your paper to ICSSSM2009!

We are sorry to notify you that the submitting method has changed
from sending e-mail to this mailbox to login of the conference website
http://one-stop1.baocard.com/icsssm09/en_index.php .And this mailbox
is invalid now. So if you have already submitted your paper, please
make sure that you will re-submit on the website. Otherwise, the paper
which sent into this mailbox will not be collected for the meeting.
And icsssm09 Organizing Committee would not be responsible for it.

Sorry for bringing these troubles to you.

And thank you again for supporting us!

ICSSSM09 Organizating Committee

--
Thank you again for your contribution.
Sincerely,
icsssm09 Organizing Committee
Email: icsssm09@gmail.com

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By end of day, the system was dropped, and never mentioned again by management.

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