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The article reports that fed up with spam from a computer science conference soliciting papers, Jeremy Stribling and two other graduate students, Dan Aguayo and Max Krohn, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hit pay dirt by successfully submitting computer-generated gibberish. The technique uses context-free grammar, which rearranges sentences in a way that is grammatically correct but makes no sense. Following media coverage of the prank, the organizers of the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, to be held this summer in Orlando, Florida, rejected their paper "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy," and refunded the authors' registration fee.