I would simply say that, were Natalia Reis to be genuine she would, by now,
have responded to this list about the criticisms of her missive.

I take Ekin's point on board, but was careful to remove the original
"Alleged spam" from my message, and I would say that, if "All publicity is
good publicity" a google search on "The Training Guild" (use quotes) will
counter that.  They are a wholly ethical company who have highly adverse
publicity from an ASA judgement against them that one might argue was
undeserved.  Their business suffered from the adverse publicity

We are discussing their conference, and their website appears to be genuine.
And it does not look like poetry.com at all though I do see similarities.
But I think it is time for our list moderator to act.

Dismembers who hate spam may also choose to forward this missive to any of
the anti-spam organisations for their consideration.

-----Original Message-----
From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lewis, Chris G.
Sent: 31 May 2005 17:03
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] WWW/Internet 2005 (2nd call extension): Call
forPapers

A conference on "the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet...
technological and non-technological"? The conference description almost
reads like the Nigerian 419 emails that get filtered out by our server. If
it were a genuine conference on data protection, FOI or E-commerce, then it
might be of interest. As it stands, it's a fairly bizarre call for papers on
an incredibly vague and ill-described topic (only described in either
laughable terms or in a list of IT subjects which could have been lifted
from the index of a text book), and your paper may appear in their
book/online journal or whatever. 
 
Actually, it reminds me of those poetry competitions in the 90's whereby
after entering the company said  your poem was escellent and had been
included in their "world class" anthology and incidentally a copy of it can
be yours for £49.99..... "The best paper authors will be invited to publish
extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on
WWW/Internet. ". The similarities are worrying - and coupled to their lack
of response to Tim, the whole thing screams "scam" to my mind.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues on
behalf of Lawrence Serewicz 
	Sent: Tue 31/05/2005 16:52 
	To: [log in to unmask] 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: [data-protection] WWW/Internet 2005 (2nd call
extension): Call forPapers
	
	

	Perhaps we should ask the following question: Has anyone on this
list 
	attended a conference offered by this organisation? 

	Rather than assume some vague academic interest, there are only 3
degrees 
	of separation between academic ideas, ( :) ) we need to see if there
is a 
	genuine interest in the conference. 

	Best 

	Lawrence Serewicz 

	Lawrence W. Serewicz 
	Scrutiny Manager 
	Management Support Unit 
	Wear Valley District Council 
	01388-761-985 

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