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Hi Ben.

Will Academia ever stop impersonating people in e-mail? I receive e-mails all the time purporting to be actually sent by academic colleagues, which are instead form messages sent by Academia.edu.

I know that you're not sending these messages with permission. I know that my dead co-author is not giving you permission to send unsettling e-mails from him.

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Hi - Please forward me a copy of one of those emails (to my first name at academia.edu).

We only ever send emails from users in response to a request from them to do so (e.g. they send a message or invite a co-author). Please send me the email and I will look into it.

Okay... this turns out to have been a false accusation. I'm very sorry. The company that does this is ResearchGate, not Academia.

Academia's e-mails have appropriate From: lines, and don't appear to be sent from beyond the grave, and you deserve credit for that.

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