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1. Someone replies to a thread but in a separate email
2. Clueless grad student asks for references to something vague, obvious, or too broad.
3. Someone replies to a question with "I wrote about this on my blog"...
4. Call for papers from somewhere you never knew existed
5. Shameless self-promotion
6. Discussion thread is started on a topic discussed ad nauseum in 1997
7. Discussion starts over the definition of a vague and over-hyped buzzword
8. Someone posts an unsolicited abstract from the thesis they wrote
9. Someone complains about the quality of some conference
10. Someone replies to a request with a link to an unrelated PhD dissertation no one cares about
11. Someone names a conference you've never heard of
12. Someone names a journal you've never of
13. Someone complains about the review process somewhere
14. Someone responds to an expert on X revealing they are "refreshingly" unaware of that person's expertise causing you to applaud internally
15. Someone responds to an expert on X revealing they are "refreshingly" unaware of that person's expertise causing you to think they are an idiot
16. You get spammed by "Out of Office" replies when posting to the list
17. Someone proclaims they're an expert on a certain topic
18. Someone replies to all the messages of the day, and says nothing
19. Someone publicly makes an ass of him/herself and someone else responds with patience and sincerity
20. Someone uses the list as therapy session to describe childhood traumas or other psychological issues
21. Someone you didn't know was on the list emerges from the woodwork to reply when his name/work is mentioned
22. Someone's e-mail signature, listing their academic qualifications and affiliations, is longer than their message
23. A grad student tries to pass as faculty by signing only his name and institution
24. It turns personal
25. Someone publicly makes social plans for an upcoming conference
26. Someone posts, for the Nth-time, a call for papers everyone already knows about
27. Someone replies to the list when a personal reply was clearly more appropriate