[R] r-project.org address blacklisted by anti-spam software

[Duncan Murdoch]

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