[R-sig-ME] spam backscatter from r-sig-mixed-models?

[Steven McKinney]

Yes, someone seems to be scraping email addresses from all R mailing lists.  I replied to an R-devel post yesterday, and now Julia Cabrera is not messing around . . .


"Re: Re Rd R Bug write table for matrix of more than 2 147 483 648 elements

Julia Cabrera <JuliaCabrera at lk.mobilemessage.info>

Steven Baby, I am not playing with you at all ok. And for your information, I don’t have much time to waste sending emails. You should think about my privacy because of the fact that I am a woman. We can have a video chat with my other profile. The other profile doesn’t demand you to link a credit card. Let’s us Video Chat Here "



I'm not sure how one plugs up an open email list against such bot attacks.  It no doubt entails a more complex system that masks all email addresses and would bust the CRAN budget.

Funny that a bot is so busy as not to have time to waste sending emails . . .  
Do bots have privacy rights?

Steven McKinney

Statistician
Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program
British Columbia Cancer Research Centre


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From: R-sig-mixed-models <r-sig-mixed-models-bounces at r-project.org> on behalf of Karista Hudelson <karistaeh at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 9:28 AM
To: r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org; bbolker at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [R-sig-ME] spam backscatter from r-sig-mixed-models?

Yes there are weird spam replies now that you mention it- my spam folder
has several of them.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 4:25 AM, Houslay, Tom <T.Houslay at exeter.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Yep - I got a load of ~interesting~ emails in response to a post a few
> days ago
>
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:11:41 -0400
> From: Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
> To: "r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org"
>         <r-sig-mixed-models at r-project.org>,
>         r-sig-mixed-models-owner at r-project.org
> Subject: [R-sig-ME] spam backscatter from r-sig-mixed-models?
> Message-ID: <4df58563-e902-809e-f849-e6ddbd8ea987 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
>
>   Is anyone else getting spam responses to r-sig-mixed-models posts?
>
>   cheers
>    Ben Bolker
>
>
>
>
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