[python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

Michael Brunton-Spall michael at brunton-spall.co.uk
Wed May 1 14:59:27 CEST 2013


On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 10:45:29AM +0100, Dougal Matthews wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 May 2013 at 10:39, Stestagg wrote:
> > Sorry, I was being prejudiced.  
> > 
> > The general tone of the message, and the grammatical mistakes made me think this might have been an attempt to sell me performance enhancing drugs or something. 
> > 
> > I guess it seems genuine, and interesting take on spreading the message.
>  
> FWIW. I consider this spam. If for no other reason I have received it before 
> on Python lists and today I got 6 copies due to being on multiple lists. The
> sender also uses a throwaway anonymous e-mail address.
> 
> Dougal  
>

I agree, I felt it was spam, not only because it was unsolicted mail,
but also because it makes difficult to verify accusations from an
anonymous account without any reference to sources.

MBS

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