According to yahoo groups, the person sending the message below,

On Dec 28, 11:55 am, ross_...@yahoo.com

in defense of WorldComp,
has never participated in any of the targeted newsgroups except to
send this one message.

My working hypothesis is that this is a sock puppet. See
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet

The author failed to reveal his/her name and papers titles, and
institution, etc. and so he may very well be the same person who
posted the original Call for Papers or his confederate.