In 2014, the computer scientist Peter Vamplew became so irritated by the constant stream of junk emails from the predatory journal International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology that he submitted a joke article entitled ‘Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List’. The paper consisted entirely of the sentence ‘Get me off your fucking mailing list’ repeated over eight hundred times (including a helpful flowchart figure with boxes and arrows portraying the message Get → me → off → Your → Fucking → Mail → ing → List). The journal rated it as ‘excellent’ and accepted it for publication.
