Clueless

I really hate receiving spam for IEEE conferences in China.

It seems that the conference organizers must either:

• Pass around a list of any attendee that’s attended or presented in China, especially participants from the United States,
• Use the full IEEE society mailing list and spam everyone,
• Or really like harrassing me.

This really only happens for IEEE sponsored conferences. The conference chairs seem to ignore any email asking (politely the first *few* times, after that I ratchet up the emails) to unsubscribe my email address, or perhaps are just plain clueless.

This reflects poorly on IEEE as a whole, on the IEEE society sponsoring the event, and on the individual organizers. /sigh

I really should start marking the emails as spam in GMail, and perhaps if enough people are being harassed by them, any email sent by them to a GMail user will never, ever show up in *anyone’s* email box.

Here are the current folks I’m annoyed with:

2009/4/24 CISP’09-BMEI’09 :
> Dear Colleague,
>
> The 2nd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing
> (CISP 2009) and the 2nd International Conference on BioMedical
> Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2009) will be jointly held in
> Tianjin, China, from 17 to 19 October 2009. We cordially invite you
> to submit a paper and/or an exhibition. Due to numerous requests,
> the submission deadline is extended to 20 May 2009.

I have no interest in image and signal processing, nor biomedical engineering and informatics. I have not attended a conference on either subject, I am not a member of the relevant IEEE societies, I have never given them permission to add me to an email list. I have already requested they take my name off their mailing list 3 times, I just sent a 4th request.

Yes, I’m very annoyed at them.