International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology

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In 2005, two scientists, David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, wrote a paper titled Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List and submitted it to WMSCI 2005 (the 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), in protest of the conference's notoriety for its spamming and lax standards for paper acceptance. The paper consisted essentially only of the sentence "Get me off your fucking mailing list" repeated many times, sometimes as illustrations or diagrams.

In 2014, after receiving a spam email message from the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, Peter Vamplew, associate professor in information technology at Federation University Australia,{{cite web | url=https://federation.edu.au/schools/school-of-engineering-information-technology-and-physical-sciences/staff-profiles/information-technology/peter-vamplew | title=A/Prof Peter Vamplew | date=28 November 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809001418/https://federation.edu.au/schools/school-of-engineering-information-technology-and-physical-sciences/staff-profiles/information-technology/peter-vamplew | archive-date=August 9, 2020}} forwarded Mazières' and Kohler's old paper as an acerbic response. To Vamplew's surprise, the paper was reviewed, and its appropriateness for the journal's publishing criteria was rated as "excellent" by the journal's peer-review process. It was accepted for publication with minor editorial changes. The paper was not actually published, as Vamplew declined to pay the required US$150 article processing charge. This case has led commenters to question the legitimacy of the journal as an authentic scholarly undertaking.

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{{Cite web |url=http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf |title=Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List |last1=Mazières |first1=David |last2=Kohler |first2=Eddie |publisher=Stanford Secure Computer Systems Group, Stanford University |access-date=November 22, 2014}}

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