My fellow tooters might appreciate this. I really wanted to read a dissertation whose author had uploaded it to Academia.edu (a very seedy website), so I signed up with a fake name, "Seedy Academic".

Today I get an email: ‘Dear Seedy Academic, 565 papers recently uploaded to Academia.edu mention the name "Seedy Academic". View your mentions.’

(It was Jennifer Pournelle’s 2003 dissertation, “Marshland of Cities:
Deltaic Landscapes and the Evolution of Early Mesopotamian Civilization”).