I asked the moderators about it. This is the reply
"Other moderators have looked into this a bit and may be able to shed more
light on it. This is a "new" tactic where the spammers appear to reply
to
the r-help post. They are not, however, going through the r-help server.
It also seems that this does not happen to everyone.
I am not sure how you can automatically block the spammers.
Sorry I cannot be of more help."
--Ulrik
Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> schrieb am Di., 17. Apr.
2018,
14:59:
> Likely a spammer has joined the mailing list and is auto-replying to posts
> made to the list. Unlikely that the list itself has been
"hacked". Agree
> that it is obnoxious.
>
> On April 17, 2018 5:01:10 AM PDT, Neotropical bat risk assessments <
> neotropical.bats at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Site has been hacked?
> >Bad SPAM arriving
> >
> >______________________________________________
> >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> >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.
>
> --
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> ______________________________________________
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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