How can we know the over-arching theme and conclusion of this paper without seeing it in it’s entirety?
You can read it here https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Advanced_Computer_Technology
In 2005, two scientists, David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, wrote a paper titled Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List and submitted it to WMSCI 2005 (the 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), in protest of the conference’s notoriety for its spamming and lax standards for paper acceptance. The paper consisted essentially only of the sentence “Get me off your fucking mailing list” repeated many times, sometimes as illustrations or diagrams.
And how did it end? Was it published? Did they get off the fucking mailing list? Wikipedia doesn’t say.
It does:
…the paper was reviewed, and its appropriateness for the journal’s publishing criteria was rated as “excellent” by the journal’s peer-review process. It was accepted for publication with minor editorial changes. The paper was not actually published, as Vamplew declined to pay the required US$150 article processing charge. This case has led commenters to question the legitimacy of the journal as an authentic scholarly undertaking.
