[R] Hacked

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:50:19 -0700 writes:

    > 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

Thank you Peter (and Ulrich and ..),

>From all the cases we (R-help-owner = your friendly volunteer
list moderators) checked,

1) the address from which the spam was sent  was *NOT* among the
   13'000 subscriber addresses to R-help

2) in one case, I replied to the address stating that it
   seemed that *e-mail account* had been hacked.
   The result was nil (NULL), i.e., my conclusion was

   a) the address was a really registered/existing e-mail address that gave
      no "mailer daemon" error 

   b) it probably did go to the spammers: a legitimate user
      would have replied to me.

Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich (= provider of all the r-*@r-project.org mailman mailing lists)
	

    > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at 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 <jdnewmil at 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.bats at gmail.com> wrote:
    >>> >Hi all,
    >>> >
    >>> >Site has been hacked?
    >>> >Bad SPAM arriving
    >>> >
    >>> >______________________________________________
    >>> >R-help at 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. Please excuse my brevity.
    >>> 
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