On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > On 07/07/2009 5:59 PM, Hans W Borchers wrote: >> >> Dear List: >> >> An e-mail mentioning the r-project.org address and sent to a friend at a >> German >> university was considered spam by the local spam filter. >> >> Its reasoning: the URL "r-project.org" is blacklisted at uribl.swinog.ch >> resp. >> at antispam.imp.ch. I checked the list >> >> http://antispam.imp.ch/swinog-uri-rbl.txt [caution: long list] >> >> and indeed, there it was. Can anybody explain how or why the R project >> made its >> way onto the list? Is it reasonable to file a protest? > > Presumably you should be asking those questions to someone at the antispam > site, or at the university you can't send email to. > > Duncan Murdoch
All 3 of the email servers are listed on Backscatter.org's blacklist. The whois records are interesting at least. Normally it's a problem with Open Relay but the tests say that's not the case. - Mark ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.