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        Date: 2024-12-06 07:37:02+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: spamming of Humanist

Thanks to the excellet facilities provided for Humanist at Cologne, it
has been well protected from spam until recently. For the last couple of
weeks, a bot has been sending false applications for membership,
fortunately with such badly constructed biographical text that they are
easy to spot. Apart from the annoyance having to delete them that this
causes, it also creates a situation in which it's also easy to delete a
valid one inadvertently. Unfortunately once deleted these valid
applications are not retrievable.

If you know anyone whose application has not been accepted, please tell
them to try again. I am trying to be more alert than usual when
processing them -- and weeding out the bot's junk.

All best,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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