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

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> 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

All 3 of the email servers are listed on Backscatter.org's blacklist.
The whois records are interesting at least.

Normally it's a problem with Open Relay but the tests say that's not the case.

- Mark