[R] email problem

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Giraudoux <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr>
>>>>>     on Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:36:15 +0100 writes:


    MM> The queue of outgoing e-mails has been emptying since
    MM> 10:30 MET now, and hopefully all mails will have been
    MM> sent within a few more hours.

    Patrick> OK.  May this explain alone the long silence I had
    Patrick> from the list since January 12 nothing (except
    Patrick> today 18 when I receive the daily batch -hope
    Patrick> things will go on smoothly now) -see mail copy
    Patrick> below? I just got the information above
    Patrick> incidentally going through the January archives via
    Patrick> internet to check batches that I did not receive.

The reason is your institution's `high-quality' ;-) virus-scanner:
Most of R-help digests sent to you are bounced as containing a
virus  though it's very clear they do not, e.g.,

 >> Message-Id: <200401171124.MAA24116 at ufc.univ-fcomte.fr>
 >> From: postmaster at univ-fcomte.fr
 >> To: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
 >> Subject: Virus Alert
 >> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:24:32 +0100

 >> Le message électronique (fichier: whole-message) que vous avez envoyé à <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr> le 01/17/2004 12:24:23 (mois/jour/année) contient un virus (Exceed_Decompression_Layer). (sur the network)


    Patrick> Thanks to the list manager for coping with those
    Patrick> troubles (guess this work is not really rewarding
    Patrick> to him...).

indeed!  though I regularly receive ``virtual flowers'' (e-"thank you"s).

Please do not bother  R-help  with these problems in general.
(this is CC'ed to R-help to *close* the thread!)

Bonnes salutations,

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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