PC volunteer spam
Dear all,
We're continuing to receive unsolicited, generic-sounding requests to join the Program Committee of CHum 2026, and will no doubt continue to receive them for CHum 2027. As previously discussed, these probably come from people who are looking to pad their CVs in order to support visa, job, or graduate school applications. The writers don't appear to have any specific expertise or interest in computational humour.
I don't think it makes sense for us to spend the time to respond to these messages, and so won't be sending any more responses myself. If no one else wants to respond to them either, perhaps we can just ignore them.
Regards, Tristan
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Good call! Ori
On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM Tristan Miller <Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.camailto:Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca> wrote: Dear all,
We're continuing to receive unsolicited, generic-sounding requests to join the Program Committee of CHum 2026, and will no doubt continue to receive them for CHum 2027. As previously discussed, these probably come from people who are looking to pad their CVs in order to support visa, job, or graduate school applications. The writers don't appear to have any specific expertise or interest in computational humour.
I don't think it makes sense for us to spend the time to respond to these messages, and so won't be sending any more responses myself. If no one else wants to respond to them either, perhaps we can just ignore them.
Regards, Tristan
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Can we put something on the website for 2026 that PC is by invitation only?
On Sep 8, 2026, at 3:00 PM, Tristan Miller Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca wrote:
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Dear all,
We're continuing to receive unsolicited, generic-sounding requests to join the Program Committee of CHum 2026, and will no doubt continue to receive them for CHum 2027. As previously discussed, these probably come from people who are looking to pad their CVs in order to support visa, job, or graduate school applications. The writers don't appear to have any specific expertise or interest in computational humour.
I don't think it makes sense for us to spend the time to respond to these messages, and so won't be sending any more responses myself. If no one else wants to respond to them either, perhaps we can just ignore them.
Regards, Tristan
-- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792
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Greetings.
On 2026-09-08 14:49, Julia M Rayz wrote:
Can we put something on the website for 2026 that PC is by invitation only?
If they write before even checking whether the workshop has already taken place, then I doubt that an "invitation only" message is going to stop them...
Regards, Tristan
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You do have a point!
On Sep 8, 2026, at 3:54 PM, Tristan Miller Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca wrote:
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Greetings.
On 2026-09-08 14:49, Julia M Rayz wrote: Can we put something on the website for 2026 that PC is by invitation only?
If they write before even checking whether the workshop has already taken place, then I doubt that an "invitation only" message is going to stop them...
Regards, Tristan
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