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Hello-
I am contacting you to make you aware of NineSigma Request, RFP# 50452-1, “The Scent of a Roasted Peanut-Keeping it Fresh!”
Our client, a major food company, is seeking proposals for methods that will preserve peanut flavor freshness throughout the shelf-life of the product. The submission date for Proposal Abstracts is April 20, 2007. More information is available in the Request for Proposal (RFP) document online at http://www.ninesigma.com/mx/50452-1.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal or would like more information, please contact me directly.
Sincerely,David Feitler, Ph.D.
Program Manager
NineSigma, Inc.
23611 Chagrin Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44122
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Don’t they know I hate peanuts??
Wonder if you have seen the latest, which is what I call spam peer review. Some months ago I received an e-mail that said I had been assigned to review a paper for an upcoming conference. It was not a request, it was notification — from someone I don't know, organizing a session for an organization of which I am not a member. You know the type of conference: vague title, nobody you've ever heard of (except for the keynote speaker, who was listed as "invited"). I ignored the e-mail, then some weeks later I began receiving a steady stream of reminders … the review is due in one month … the review is due in two weeks, etc. Needless to say, I ignored them all.
Nine sigma, eh? Never mind the passé six. Also, "23611 Chagrin Blvd"? Who wouldn't want to live in Chagrin, OH? Or Exasperation, WI? Vexation, IN maybe?
More spam from the same company…
anybody interested? :)))
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Hello-
I am contacting you to make you aware of NineSigma Request, RFP# 30550-6, "Method and Instrumentation for Quantifying Porosity in Thin Porous Electrodes."
NineSigma (representing General Motors Corporation) has identified you as a party with a potential to respond to, or as a contact who might know of someone with expertise in quantitative characterization of the pore structure in thin porous electrode coatings. Existing BTE and MPI methods do not provide critical information about pore structure and new approaches are required. Up to US $100,000 is offered to support initial phase instrumentation development, and up to US$ 300,000 is offered for instrument acquisition. The final submission date for Proposal Abstracts is October 26, 2007. More information is available in the Request for Proposal (RFP) document online at http://www.ninesigma.com/mx/30550-6.
If after reviewing the full RFP document you are interested in submitting a proposal or would like more information, please contact me by email and reference RFP# 30550-6 in the subject line.
Sincerely,
David Feitler, Ph.D.
Program Manager
NineSigma, Inc.
23611 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 320
Cleveland, Ohio 44122-5540
[email protected]
Hi Ruslan,
First, see: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/ar…
for my response to the original blog post.
Then: We are aggressive about removing people who don't want to receive emails from us. There are real people at the other end of what we do. The General Motors project you've cited is a cutting edge, unsolved problem in the field of fuel cell design and optimization and has drawn a far better than average response from researchers all over the world.
Dave