The guys didn't need to work very hard to obtain our data. (My understanding
is that) all the mails from this list are publicly available at the R-help
archives. You will find yourself here:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e4/help/08/03/index.html

That is why we can (and must) browse through the history of the mail-list to
avoid asking again an already-answered question. The bad side is that our
name and email address are exposed.

just in case: I have nothing to do with the spammers





On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Gorden T Jemwa <jemwa@sun.ac.za> wrote:

> Dear R Admins,
>
> I received an unsolicited e-mail from BlueInference as an R
> user. Does it mean that R that our e-mails (and  names) is
> sharing it's user database with third parties without our
> consent? Or perhaps the BlueInference guys are using an
> e-mail address miner to get our contact details?
>
>
>
> [SNIP]
>
> Dear Gorden Jemwa,
>
> As a fellow R user, I am sure you agree with me that R is a
> dear gift from the R-project community that should enjoy
> broad use.  Towards that end, we've built a software
> solution directed at the very large community of Microsoft
> Office users, called Inference for Office.  It combines the
> powerful data-analysis capabilities of R with the familiar
> and flexible word-processing and data-preparation features
> of Microsoft Word and Excel.  We are making Inference for
> Office available for free to R users at educational and
> non-profit research institutions.  A free trial is available
> for everyone.
>
> With Inference for Office, you can assemble all the elements
> of an R data-analysis project (text, data, R objects, R
> code) into dynamic documents.  These dynamic documents can
> then be executed in real-time to create results documents
> containing all the output and graphics.  If Inference for
> Office is of no interest to you, please disregard this
> message and accept our humble apologies for having bothered you.
>
> If Inference for Office sounds like it might useful, you can
> obtain additional information by visiting our website and
> viewing a two-minute screencast overview of Inference for
> Office:
>
> http://www.inference.us
>
> While you're there, you can also download a free trial of
> Inference for Office
>
> To your success,
>
>  --Ben
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> . . . . .
> Ben Hinchliffe
> Inference Evangelist
> BlueReference, Inc.
> ben.hinchliffe@bluereference.com
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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-- 
ahimsa campos-arceiz
PhD candidate
Lab of Biodiversity Science
The University of Tokyo
www.camposarceiz.com

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