Dear List, I registered for the useR conference in Rennes today; half an hour after the confirmation I received a first "requested newsletter" from a company selling a product named "Inference for R". This coincidence might be spurious. Or not, depending on frequency. Dieter
On 24/02/2009 8:06 AM, Dieter Menne wrote:> Dear List, > > I registered for the useR conference in Rennes today; half an hour after the > confirmation I received a first "requested newsletter" from a company selling a > product named "Inference for R". > > This coincidence might be spurious. Or not, depending on frequency.I think it was just a coincidence. I also received the spam, and am not yet registered for the conference. Duncan Murdoch
Dieter Menne wrote:> Dear List, > > I registered for the useR conference in Rennes today; half an hour after the > confirmation I received a first "requested newsletter" from a company selling a > product named "Inference for R". > > This coincidence might be spurious. Or not, depending on frequency. > >i haven't registered, but have received the newsletter too. vQ
I got the same spam message today and I havent signed up for anything except this forum mailing list. The software they are trying to sell doesnt seem to cover any new ground anyway. Simon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Lumley" <tlumley at u.washington.edu> To: "ronggui" <ronggui.huang at gmail.com> Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [R] Inference for R Spam> > The same company caused a complaint about a year ago > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-March/157423.html > > The mailing company they are using (iContact.com) claims to have a tough > antispam policy. So does everyone, of course. > > -thomas > > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics > tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org 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 also received the spam, and have not registered for the conference. I decided to do the noble experiment, and used their web interface to unsubscribe to the newsletter to which they claim I had subscribed, and for good measure added my name to their "do not contact" list. albyn On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:06:11PM +0000, Dieter Menne wrote:> Dear List, > > I registered for the useR conference in Rennes today; half an hour after the > confirmation I received a first "requested newsletter" from a company selling a > product named "Inference for R". > > This coincidence might be spurious. Or not, depending on frequency. > > Dieter > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org 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. >