Michael Richardson<p>About once a week, I get an invite, usually to my IETF (sub-)mailbox, for some technical conference in some remote place. It's sponsored by one or two obscure universities in Brazil, Montenegro or maybe Honduras. There is a claim to be associated with IEEE, and sometimes when I look it up, the claim seems to be legitimate. I just can't understand why <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/ieee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ieee</span></a> continues to associate itself with looks like (at best), spam, might be a total scam.</p>