[Corpora-List] Fwd: [BioNLP] World=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=Biggest Computer Conference WORLDCOMP is Cancelled

[Kevin B. Cohen]

Interesting that every one of the twelve comments on that article was
anonymous...

Kev

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Terry Murphy <tmorpheme at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Another point of view:
> http://www.redandblack.com/news/professor-deals-with-elaborate-cyber-attack/article_03344d54-cd7f-5753-a870-e3bcee5c87ce.html
>
>> From: kevin.cohen at gmail.com
>> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:32 -0700
>> To: corpora at uib.no
>> Subject: [Corpora-List] Fwd: [BioNLP] World’s Biggest Computer Conference
>> WORLDCOMP is Cancelled
>
>>
>> There's been traffic about this topic on the CORPORA list in the past, so
>> I'm sure that some of you will be amused by this email.
>>
>> Kev
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: <amgsolo at hushmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM
>> Subject: [BioNLP] World’s Biggest Computer Conference WORLDCOMP is
>> Cancelled
>> To: bionlp at lists.ccs.neu.edu
>>
>>
>> The world’s biggest computer science conference WORLDCOMP is canceled
>> after twelve successful years of service. Defamation campaign is going
>> on WORLDCOMP: https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf or
>> http://dumpconference.ueuo.com or
>> https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 or
>>
>> http://weka.8497.n7.nabble.com/WORLDCOMP-World-s-Biggest-Bogus-Conference-is-Back-Again-td26681.html
>> or Google using the words worldcomp, fake or worldcomp, bogus.
>>
>> We filed lawsuits in 2012 to stop this defamation but no use. Due to
>> this, we are finding it highly difficult to get paper submissions,
>> sponsors, etc. We are determined to solve this problem permanently
>> through legal channels. We are focusing all our efforts on legal
>> matters and that’s why we canceled WORLDCOMP’13. We update WORLDCOMP’s
>> website also, once we complete some legal/technical formalities.
>>
>> As ordered by the University of Georgia, Prof.Hamid Arabnia
>> (http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra WORLDCOMP coordinator) is refunding half
>> the amount of the registration fee for all the registered authors of
>> WORLDCOMP from 2005-2012. If you are a registered author and your
>> physical address is changed then send an email to hra (AT) cs.uga.edu
>> and CC to morehead (AT) uga.edu with your name, year, paper title,
>> list of all co-authors of the paper, the amount of fee you paid, and
>> the new mailing address for sending the refund check. The deadline to
>> email this information is one week from now. Please forward this email
>> to all your friends who have papers in previous WORLDCOMPs.
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> AMG Solo (Ashu Solo)
>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=BIOFUSION;f9748581.0705
>> (WORLDCOMP publicity chair since 2005)
>>
>> My interesting activity is:
>> http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/17/saskatoon-bus-display or
>> Google using the words ashu solo, christmas
>>
>>
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>> Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, PhD
>> Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead, Computational Bioscience Program,
>> U. Colorado School of Medicine
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>> http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen
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U. Colorado School of Medicine
303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home)
http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen

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