Spam {Re: [R] urgent}

[Martin Maechler]

I'm sorry for this spam that astonishingly came through to the
mailing list.

It seems these guys have been "exercising" against known spam
filters and achieved more than in the past.
Also, recent versions of our spamfilter have been tuned such as
to rather produce a few false negatives {spam not detected}
with hardly ever any false positive {non-spam not delivered to recipient},
which makes a lot of sense.

We (I and local e-mail administrators) do keep an eye on this, 
me spending a little time for "manual tuning", but we do not
want to allocate too much time for this. 

PLEASE do not reply to this e-mail (at least not to R-help!). 
It is *not* relevant to R and not worth the time (also since too
many people think they know what they are talking about :-).

If you want, reply to me privately.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich