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If I had the email address of every researcher in my field, I would never send a mass email to them describing my latest goofy idea. I would, however, send my l
by matthewdgreen 15d ago
If I had the email address of every researcher in my field, I would never send a mass email to them describing my latest goofy idea. I would, however, send my latest goofy idea to a conference with those same reviewers (if I felt it was technically appropriate and correct.)
- XorNot 15d agoI mean we use to have newsgroups which basically implemented this. Which of course is the point: it is in fact quite similar to a mailing list, just with some extra protocol surounding it to make it manageable. So the attempted snark about it up thread is stupid.
- IAmBroom 14d agoStill inaccurate. A paper has a (semi-formal) structure, including TITLE, AUTHORS, and the all-important ABSTRACT. Email guarantees none of those.