Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List
TL;DR — Ten pages repeating one sentence, written as a joke in 2005 — and accepted by a journal in 2014.
⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. Explicitly free / author-released / CC.
NYU and UCLA. The paper consists of its title, repeated, for ten pages, with figures and a flowchart made of the same words.
Written in 2005 to answer conference spam. In 2014 a researcher submitted it unchanged to the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, which accepted it as ‘excellent’ after peer review and asked for a fee.
The sting is the document. It is now the standard citation for predatory publishing, and it works because it required no argument — only submission.
Where this came from
10 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.