Bert Gunter wrote:> Folks: > > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end? > > Feel free to reply privately. > > Thanks. > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Statistics > South San Francisco, CA 94404 > 650-467-7374 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > 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. >I have the same problem with the spam, anybody can stop the spam in r-help and others mail list, r-sig-robust, etc. Thanks -- ****************************************** Fernando Espindola Rebolledo Departamento de Evaluacion de Pesquerias Division de Investigacion Pesquera Instituto de Fomento Pesquero Blanco 839 Valparaiso - Chile tel: (+56)-32-322442 http://fespindola.mi-pagina.cl/index.htm
Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my end? Feel free to reply privately. Thanks. Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA 94404 650-467-7374
Dear Gunter, I am having the same problem at my email box. Bert Gunter escreveu:> Folks: > > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end? > > Feel free to reply privately. > > Thanks. > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Statistics > South San Francisco, CA 94404 > 650-467-7374 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > 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. >-- Carlos GUERRA Gabinete de Sistemas de Informacao Geografica Escola Superior Agraria de Ponte de Lima Mosteiro de Refoios do Lima 4990-706 Ponte de Lima Tlm: +351 91 2407109 Tlf: +351 258 909779 Reclaim your Inbox...!!! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Bert Gunter wrote:> Folks: > > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end? > > Feel free to reply privately. >Martin Maechler is still walking about upside-down after the DSC, slated to return on March 8 (plus presumably a day or two to recover from the flight...). The lists are currently on minimal maintenance and the spam filters have been known to break and give up occasionally. I think we just have to bear with it for a few more days.
On 3/6/07, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:> In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end?There has indeed been an increase in the amount of spam making it through to the list. We apologize for the inconvenience. Regretably we will not be able to do much about it until the beginning of next week. Martin Maechler is on vacation at present and I am administering the lists until he returns. Most of the time this works even though the mail servers are in Zurich Switzerland and I am in Madison, WI, USA. However, in the last two days we have had a surge in spam and quite a bit of it is getting through the filters. The filters are catching some of the spam. I think the main difference in the last two days has been that the level of spam to the lists has increased but it could be that something has happened to the filters too. All the lists except R-help only allow postings from subscribers so there should very little spam on the other lists. This subscriber-only policy can be difficult for people like me who receive email at one address but send it from another. Either the sender must remember to use the account that is registered for the list or the list administrator must manually approve the posting. Even worse, such a policy dissuades new useRs from posting because they get a response that their message has been held pending manual approval by the administrator. Sometimes they react by reposting the message, then re-reposting, then ... We have avoided instituting such a policy on R-help because of the level of administrative work that will be involved and our desire not to dissuade new useRs from posting to the list. However, if this keeps up we may need to reconsider. I would ask for the list subscribers to bear with us until Martin returns and can check on whether something has gone wrong with the filters.
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:23 -0800, Bert Gunter wrote:> Folks: > > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end? > > Feel free to reply privately. > > Thanks.The "Human Spam Filter" (aka Martin) is on vacation through Friday, subsequent to attending DSC. Not sure if there is much else that can be done until his return. The good news is that my automated filters on my system are picking up 'most' of them. But there has been a notable increase in the past few days suggesting that something is amiss in Zurich... It is also happening on the other R related lists (ie. ESS, etc.). Regards, Marc
Not in the past 2 days, but only today I've received already more than 40 spams from R-help and R-sig-* too. Rarely I received a spam from these lists... Fernando Mayer. Bert Gunter escreveu:> Folks: > > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end? > > Feel free to reply privately. > > Thanks. > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Statistics > South San Francisco, CA 94404 > 650-467-7374 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > 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.
me too. Over 50% of messages are spam. I also noted the same thing on ESS-help. Carlos Guerra wrote:> Dear Gunter, > I am having the same problem at my email box. > > Bert Gunter escreveu: >> Folks: >> >> In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into >> R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some >> change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my >> end? >> >> Feel free to reply privately. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Bert Gunter >> Genentech Nonclinical Statistics >> South San Francisco, CA 94404 >> 650-467-7374 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> 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. >> >-- Mark W. Kimpel MD Neuroinformatics Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine
Carlos Guerra wrote:> Dear Gunter, > I am having the same problem at my email box.Our warmest thanks to Martin Maechler who managed to keep us free from spam for so many years on the R mailing lists!!! Uwe Ligges> Bert Gunter escreveu: >> Folks: >> >> In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into >> R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some >> change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my >> end? >> >> Feel free to reply privately. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Bert Gunter >> Genentech Nonclinical Statistics >> South San Francisco, CA 94404 >> 650-467-7374 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> 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. >> >
Dear Mark, If you are using an email program like thunderbird or any other you can filter your emails by key (not very amusing) words at the source. Best regards, Carlos Mark W Kimpel escreveu:> me too. Over 50% of messages are spam. I also noted the same thing on > ESS-help. > > Carlos Guerra wrote: >> Dear Gunter, >> I am having the same problem at my email box. >> >> Bert Gunter escreveu: >>> Folks: >>> >>> In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into >>> R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been >>> some >>> change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem >>> on my >>> end? >>> >>> Feel free to reply privately. >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Bert Gunter >>> Genentech Nonclinical Statistics >>> South San Francisco, CA 94404 >>> 650-467-7374 >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>> 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. >>> >> >-- Carlos GUERRA Gabinete de Sistemas de Informacao Geografica Escola Superior Agraria de Ponte de Lima Mosteiro de Refoios do Lima 4990-706 Ponte de Lima Tlm: +351 91 2407109 Tlf: +351 258 909779 Reclaim your Inbox...!!! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Ya me parec?a que no me pasaba solo a mi... :) uhmmm fall? el spam-filter?> Folks: > > In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into > R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some > change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my > end? > > Feel free to reply privately. > > Thanks. > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Statistics > South San Francisco, CA 94404 > 650-467-7374 > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help en stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > 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. > >
Horacio Castellini wrote:> Ya me parec?a que no me pasaba solo a mi... :) uhmmm fall? el spam-filter? >Si, es todos que lee R-news, pero maravillo, que es el palabra para "spam" en espa?ol? Jim
[Marc Schwartz]>The "Human Spam Filter" (aka Martin) [...]The R mailing list has, indeed, be remarkably spam-free, and well-managed so far that I can see. I do hope, however, that Martin does not have to do the filtering himself -- it would be just daunting! In any case, Martin, a lot of thanks from me! -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca