On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 11:39 -0500, Bill Cole wrote: > > A customer has expressed mild dismay at the concept that a fine > research institution should be "punished for doing research." I'm > less attached to Princeton than my NJ-based customer and (having > worked in a NIH-funded lab) less idolizing of the Ivory Tower in > general. I have no difficulty explaining my position, but I am > rather surprised that I need to in 2021. Am I missing something > special that makes such research spam somehow not spam?
No. And that's about the stupidest "study" I've ever heard of. It's not like they're going to get any responses other than "fsck off" (which is what I added to my header_filters after getting the second one). It's hard to imagine anyone being that naive in 2021, but here we are.
