[R] [FORGED] I'm Working On A Data Security Article - Quick Question

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/02/2019 4:26 a.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
> On 2/11/19 3:57 AM, Murris Johnson wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have a quick question for you about a page on your site that briefly
>> mentions a data security topic, https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-May/162561.html.
>>
>>
>> I plan on writing a few guest authored articles in the next month or so
>> that talk about data security & breaches, are you ok with me possibly
>> linking to your above-mentioned webpage?
>>
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure which sites I may link to or reference in the
>> articles yet, but I'd like to have a few different options to choose
>> from... so please let me know what you think when you have a moment to let
>> me know. Whatever you decide, thanks for your time and I don't expect a
>> response if you're not interested. Thanks.
> 
> Are you pulling our legs?

No, he's a spammer who clearly hasn't read the link he's asking about. 
There are probably thousands of them.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Personally I haven't got a clue what you are asking.
> 
> Also, please note that r-help is a world wide "community" with hundreds
> of thousands of members.  (I am but one of this large and unruly mob.)
> It is not a single entity or "site".  (There is a formal organisation
> that runs the R show, but you are not really addressing this formal
> organisation.)
> 
> The URL that you refer to is a joke!  Apparently some idiotic Windoze
> antiviral software once identified the R executable for Windoze as being
> a virus.  This is not to taken seriously.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
>