How I love personalised spam email
In my work mailbox, I receive a daily dose of emails soliciting my participation in international conferences (usually, but not always, located in China or one of the arab nations, and usually in a field or research I'm not active in), or soliciting my involvement in a journal. Usually, the journal emails are for what I would consider 'vanity press' publications, and either involve invitations to join editorial boards or to submit a paper. Today's mailbox includes this wonderfully personalised email:
I don't suppose it's too bad, being referred to as Dr firstname!