XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 1/26/2024 7:45 PM, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > It's been a while since I've mentioned the organisation called Academia.   
   > Maybe there are lurkers here who would benefit from a warning. The web   
   > site academia.edu claims "Academia.edu is a place to share and follow   
   > research". That sounds respectable, but its record for accuracy is   
   > really bad.   
   >   
   > I regularly get e-mail from them saying   
   >    
   > Download your PDF Package for "Julius Caesar"   
   > You viewed the paper "Julius Caesar". Download your next PDF with PDF   
   > Package.   
   >    
   >   
   > (I see these messages whenever I'm cleaning up my spam folder.)   
   >   
   > To the best of my knowledge I have never viewed a paper called "Julius   
   > Caesar", at academia.edu or elsewhere. Either they are targeting people   
   > randomly, or their information is grossly faulty. Either way, that's not   
   > good enough. Do not trust them.   
   >   
      
      
   they (Academia.edu) never makes that mistake  in  their  emails to me.   
      
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