Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:31:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Walter <walter@budoe.bu.edu> To: Jorge_G_Morfin <morfin@fnal.gov> cc: <opc.nuint01@neutrino.kek.jp> Subject: Re: recent registration requests. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110301722310.4160-100000@skpc2.bu.edu> Dear Jorge, I certainly agree with you and I don't want to exclude people based on their English skills. Let me just point out some of the things I noticed about the last messages. There were a set of messages all from yahoo.com accounts signed with different names(and different accounts). However the text in all of them was exactly the same including misspellings and spacing. There was at least one other of these came from another free mail services with the same text. This seems suspicious to me. We need to make sure people are really associated with the field somehow. There was no university association listed in the emails. It's very sad we have to think about this sort of thing, -Chris On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jorge_G_Morfin wrote: > Hi Chris, > > This is a non-trivial and delicate question made even more difficult by > the current heightened tensions. The fact that their English is ... > unique, shouldn't automatically preclude them from being valid > registrants. If they have submitted registration forms they may actually > want to attend the Workshop and may need letters to obtain visas. It will > have to be Makoto's call. > For the CTEQ summer school I normally get a dozen participants each > year that, often with rather poor English, request a formal letter of > invitation to get a visa. > > Jorge > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Chris Walter wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > Recently we have been getting many strange registration requests > > asking for letters for visas for people who clearly aren't actually > > coming to the meeting. > > > > I'm sure it is obvious to all of you that we shouldn't send invitation > > letters to these people but I just want to double check that it isn't > > been done automatically by a secretary or something. In these times > > we certainly need to be aware of people who are trying to obtain > > visas fraudulently. > > > > -Chris > > > > >
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