R devel - Nov 2002 - Apology for not enough protection of new R-devel

Dear R-devel subscribers,

I'm feeling quite sheepish at the moment:
When I had activated the change from majordomo to mailman this
morning, I accidentally didn't activate the spam(+some virus)
detection part.  I've only activated it half an hour ago.

Indeed there were twos message of the following kind sent from
R-devel -- I did never seem them personally, because we *do*
filtering of these.
It seems they are Javascript-based viruses (see some info below).
In any case, I apologize and very much hope that this won't
happen (as easily) again. 

Yours,
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum  LEO C16	Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology)	8092 Zurich	SWITZERLAND
phone: x-41-1-632-3408		fax: ...-1228			<><
>>  Our virus detector has just been triggered by a message you sent:-
>>    To: .......
>>    Subject: [Rd] ±Ð±z ¦p¦ó°µ¤@±iº}«Gªººô­¶
>>    Date: Mon Nov 18 13:34:30 2002
>>  Any infected parts of the message have not been delivered.
>> 
>>  This message is simply to warn you that your computer system may have
a
>>  virus present and should be checked.
>> 
>>  The virus detector said this about the message:
>>  Report: gAIHYOH30591/msg-29196-147.html  Infection: JS/Seeker.R