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If students didn't do this, it's unlikely their works would be read by more than a handful of people in their lifetime.
New kind of spam?

And why do they assume these copies would be read?

Reflex curiousity? If I got an unsolicited PhD thesis through the post I would definitely read it.
American PhD here, this is a pretty alien concept to me.