>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Mon, 3 Dec 2012 01:18:13 +0000 writes:
> rahul143 <rk204885 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
> I have a strong suspicion that this person is a spammer.
> Evidence:
> 1. 24 e-mails to the r-help list in a little over an
> hour, which is excessive even for a real person. 2. The
> questions range extremely widely, especially for a
> beginner in R. 3. All of the questions include a
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> line, which I'm guessing was a spam-link that got filtered
> by the mailing list software.
> 4. At least two of the questions are exact duplicates of
> old questions.
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-December/084537.html
> (broken link:)
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20101105/
> 4ae4e9c6/attachment.pl
> Could a list moderator see about banning them? (If
> rahul143 is a real person with real statistical questions,
> perhaps it could explain itself ...)
Thanks a lot, Ben.
Unfortunately, this new spam trick hit over the weekend,
and so we, the list moderators, were slightly less alert than usual.
It's very unfortunate though. Please R-help readers do apologize.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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