Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Withers
com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRa2LDcp4VF4rQJSioaQWwdsJjsHnaJUYwq6gHNsdnZJWlngPapjQ <http://www.linkedin.com/in/JonGould>http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVG9csvWvSkdYSn0P9veokPAM7Qc-NQyzwVubIqvm8hopWs1Ru *From:*Jon Gould *Sent:* 01 May 2013 11:03 *To:* 'UK Python Users' *Subject:* RE: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Scie

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Matthew Webber
It is irrelevant whether it is genuine or not, the message is completely off-topic for this forum, and should not have been posted here. It looks like someone has got really worked up about something (rightly or wrongly), and decided to tell the entire work about it (definitely wrong). That's my ta

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Seeing as this comes from a hushmail.com account (anonymous service I believe), and says some not very nice things about a particular individual I think it can be taken with a pinch of salt. Academic conferences don't make mega-bucks, even if you ran a corrupt one you'd have to offer something els

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Michael Brunton-Spall
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

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Jon Gould
tatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVG9csvWvSkdYSn0P9veokPAM7Qc-NQyzwVubIqvm8hopWs1Ru] From: Jon Gould Sent: 01 May 2013 11:03 To: 'UK Python Users' Subject: RE: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science Have you got his number? Regards Jon Gould | Team Leader Austin Fraser Lim

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Jon Gould
kdYSn0P9veokPAM7Qc-NQyzwVubIqvm8hopWs1Ru] From: python-uk [mailto:python-uk-bounces+j.gould=austinfraser@python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Diggins Sent: 01 May 2013 10:57 To: UK Python Users Subject: Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science Interesting. Agree it is roughly on-topic, It's doesn&

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Tim Diggins
Interesting. Agree it is roughly on-topic, It's doesn't seem to be a rogue or fraudulent email. But also it does sound like it's unsolicited bulk mail. I'd rather leave it up to a Bayesian filter to decide if that all means it's spam or not. ;-) On 1 May 2013 09:32, Thomas Morton wrote: > They

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Dougal Matthews
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 inter

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Stestagg
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. Steve On Wed, May 1, 2013 at

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Thomas Morton
They've been sending it to loads of list; Wikimedia lists got bazillions of copies :D Tom On 1 May 2013 09:23, Richard Barran wrote: > Spam? Sounds on-topic for a Python mailing list :-) > > On 1 May 2013, at 00:52, Stestagg wrote: > > Is this just spam? It certainly has that feel about it..

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Richard Barran
Spam? Sounds on-topic for a Python mailing list :-) On 1 May 2013, at 00:52, Stestagg wrote: > Is this just spam? It certainly has that feel about it.. > > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:12 AM, wrote: > Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science > > >

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-04-30 Thread Stestagg
Is this just spam? It certainly has that feel about it.. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:12 AM, wrote: > Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science > > We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study > on the world’s biggest > bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP >

[python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-04-30 Thread eliswilson
Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA.