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TIL that, after having received spam from "predatory" academic journals fishing for publication fees, students from NYU and UCLA retaliated with a submission of their own. The paper, named "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List," contained text, diagrams, and graphs repeating the title for 10 pages.

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