How nice. A personal invitation.
I received this email today today. I especially appreciate the personal touch in the salutation.
Dear Dr. [NAME]
Currently, we are involved in organizing “International Conference and Exhibition on Proteomics & Bioinformatics” (Proteomics-2011), will be held during 6–8 June 2011 Hyderabad, India. The main theme of Proteomics-2011 is to “Promote foster & enhances (sic) research in the area of Proteomics & Bioinformatics”. Proteomics -2011 is a specially designed cluster conference, which covers a wide range of critically important sessions from basic research in Proteomics to advanced Technology.
Probably clicked “Send” without a review…
🙂
Wow! We have the same professional surname! Are we related?
@John Wilkins
I’ve been called worse…
I get this kind of conference spam almost every day now. Usually with at least two buzzwords in the title (sometimes four), and located in either Hyderabad or Miami…
@Rosie Redfield A good friend of mine calls these conference and paper invitations the “alternate universe” science. A lump description of dissemination venues for sub-par research and other activities. Trouble is, sometimes the “good” invitations in my inbox are diluted in the alt-universe ones, resulting in false-negatives, which already caused me some embarrassment.
However, this is a rare occasion where the unfilled letter template was sent. Usually it’s “Dear professor”, or sometimes even “Dear Prof. Friedberg” or “Dear Iddo”. A lot of times it’s “Dear Prof. idoerg” (my ubiquitous email nick).