[R] Hacked

[Luis Puerto]

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 using 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 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
>>>> 
>>>> ______________________________________________
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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.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>> 
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>>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> ______________________________________________
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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.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> 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.