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Subject: Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List

Dear James Taylor Lewis Grimmelmann:

Your paper entitled —— was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for ——. …

As of 04/22/2009 your paper has been downloaded 11 times.


reminds me of Bob Uecker: “If they turned this ballpark around, we’d be in the front row!”


Hate to be competitive (actually, obviously I don’t) but I got one of those suckers once for one sad single download.

Okay to call you “James Taylor” from here on out? :>)


But that won’t stop the law school’s Communications Office from issues a press release.