[R] Hacked

[K. Elo]

Hi!

Not just an gmail issue. After my last reply I have gotten tons of
spams from "Samantha Smith". Keep hitting my "rank as spam"-button in
the hope that my MUA could learn :)

Best,
Kimmo

ti, 2018-04-17 kello 19:34 +0000, Ding, Yuan Chun kirjoitti:
> No, I do not use gmail, still got dirty spam email twice. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Fowler, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:32 PM
> To: Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder
> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Just an observation. I have not seen the spam you are discussing.
> Possibly it is specific to gmail addresses?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Luis
> Puerto
> Sent: April 17, 2018 4:11 PM
> To: Peter Langfelder
> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
> 
> Hi! 
> 
> This happened to me also! I just got a spam email just after posting
> and then in following days I got obnoxious spam emails in my spam
> filter. As the others, I think that there is some kind of bot
> subscribed to the list, but also perhaps a spider or crawler
> monitoring the R-Help archive and getting email addresses there.
> Nabble is a possibility too. 
> 
> > 
> > On 17 Apr 2018, at 21:50, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.
> > com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmai
> > l.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
> > > > > 
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