[R] Hacked

[Peter Langfelder]

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 using gmail.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 using 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 using gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >Site has been hacked?
>> >Bad SPAM arriving
>> >
>> >______________________________________________
>> >R-help using r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> >PLEASE do read the posting guide
>> >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help using r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
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