Actually, you have to send an email at c...@r-project.org with the title 
"submission packageXXX versionYYY" send from the same email address that the 
one in the maintainer field.

Philippe


On 10 Mar 2014, at 16:42, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>>>>> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
>>>>> Maintainer: 'firstname A B lastname '
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is just a Note that reminds CRAN maintainers to check that the
>>> submission comes actually from his maintainer and not anybody else.
>> 
>> How does CRAN do that?  Seems like a challenging problem given an
>> anonymous web form upload.
>> 
> 
> According to my memories, they send an email to the maintainer's email
> address to confirm the upload. If the email address has changed, they send
> an email to both the new and old addresses.
> 
> If the old address does not exist any more, then it is tricky indeed, and I
> am not sure what you can do in this case.
> 
> Gabor
> 
> 
>> 
>> Hadley
>> 
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