Re: [Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-06 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi, FWIW, I checked the R-Devel subscriber list of e-mail addresses (as Co-Admin with Martin I have access). There are presently 1,296 subscribers to individual posts and 746 to post digests on R-Devel. Neither of the two e-mail addresses referenced below as being the sources of spam are

Re: [Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-06 Thread frederik
I agree that no action should be taken. It's somewhat mystifying that the robot known as "Amy Kristen" responds so quickly after my post, and with such regularity (so far twice per hour), using perhaps several email addresses - and using the correct "Reply-To" headers. But more mystifying is that

Re: [Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-06 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi, This topic has come up previously, across the R e-mail lists and the spammers need not be subscribers (but could be), but simply reasonably competent HTML scrapers. If you look at the online archives of the R lists, for example R-Devel for this month:

Re: [Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-06 Thread Marcelo Perlin
Perhpas amy needs help with her new package, R_spam,which is not working well with R_scam.  Em 6 de dez de 2016 11:16, escreveu: Yes, I just heard from Amy Kristen who is "looking to meet new guys"... On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:31:56AM -0800, Kenny Bell wrote: > Have others

Re: [Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-06 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
The problem is not specific to this list. Any kind of public list may mean that other subscribers (or even the whole world) can see your email address. So whenever you mail to a (public) list there is a good chance that afterwards, you will get more spam. Not really much can be done about it, at

Re: [Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-06 Thread frederik
> new package, R_spam Oh, you got my hopes up! On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 12:24:20PM -0200, Marcelo Perlin wrote: > Perhpas amy needs help with her new package, R_spam,which is not working > well with R_scam.  > > Em 6 de dez de 2016 11:16, escreveu: > > Yes, I just heard

Re: [Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-06 Thread frederik
Yes, I just heard from Amy Kristen who is "looking to meet new guys"... On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:31:56AM -0800, Kenny Bell wrote: > Have others received spam messages after posting to this list? > > The two problem emails are hodgesdonna...@yahoo.com and > amykristen4...@octbm.com. > >

[Rd] Spam messages

2016-12-02 Thread Kenny Bell
Have others received spam messages after posting to this list? The two problem emails are hodgesdonna...@yahoo.com and amykristen4...@octbm.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list