Seems it must be the R-list. A horde of ‘solicitation’ emails began arriving about 27 minutes after I posted about not seeing any! Had left work by that time, so did not encounter them until now.
From: Mark Leeds [mailto:marklee...@gmail.com] Sent: April 18, 2018 12:33 AM To: Rui Barradas Cc: Ding, Yuan Chun; Fowler, Mark; Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder; R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments Subject: Re: [R] Hacked Hi All: I lately get a lot more spam-porn type emails lately also but I don't know if they are due to me being on the R-list. On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt<mailto:ruipbarra...@sapo.pt>> wrote: Hello, Nor do I, no gmail, also got spam. Rui Barradas On 4/17/2018 8:34 PM, Ding, Yuan Chun wrote: No, I do not use gmail, still got dirty spam email twice. -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org>] On Behalf Of Fowler, Mark Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:32 PM To: Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments Subject: Re: [R] Hacked [Attention: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.] Just an observation. I have not seen the spam you are discussing. Possibly it is specific to gmail addresses? -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org>] On Behalf Of Luis Puerto Sent: April 17, 2018 4:11 PM To: Peter Langfelder Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments Subject: Re: [R] Hacked Hi! This happened to me also! I just got a spam email just after posting and then in following days I got obnoxious spam emails in my spam filter. As the others, I think that there is some kind of bot subscribed to the list, but also perhaps a spider or crawler monitoring the R-Help archive and getting email addresses there. Nabble is a possibility too. On 17 Apr 2018, at 21:50, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfel...@gmail.com<mailto:peter.langfel...@gmail.com>> wrote: I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies of this list (nabble or similar). Peter On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.ster...@gmail.com<mailto:ulrik.ster...@gmail.com>> wrote: I asked the moderators about it. This is the reply "Other moderators have looked into this a bit and may be able to shed more light on it. This is a "new" tactic where the spammers appear to reply to the r-help post. They are not, however, going through the r-help server. It also seems that this does not happen to everyone. I am not sure how you can automatically block the spammers. Sorry I cannot be of more help." --Ulrik Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us<mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>> schrieb am Di., 17. Apr. 2018, 14:59: Likely a spammer has joined the mailing list and is auto-replying to posts made to the list. Unlikely that the list itself has been "hacked". Agree that it is obnoxious. On April 17, 2018 5:01:10 AM PDT, Neotropical bat risk assessments < neotropical.b...@gmail.com<mailto:neotropical.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, Site has been hacked? Bad SPAM arriving ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org<mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. 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