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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies of this list (nabble or similar). Peter On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> wrote:> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
Hi! This happened to me also! I just got a spam email just after posting and then in following days I got obnoxious spam emails in my spam filter. As the others, I think that there is some kind of bot subscribed to the list, but also perhaps a spider or crawler monitoring the R-Help archive and getting email addresses there. Nabble is a possibility too.> On 17 Apr 2018, at 21:50, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote: > > I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails > did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to > the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies > of this list (nabble or similar). > > Peter > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
>>>>> Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.com> >>>>> on Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:50:19 -0700 writes:> I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails > did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to > the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies > of this list (nabble or similar). > Peter Thank you Peter (and Ulrich and ..),>From all the cases we (R-help-owner = your friendly volunteerlist moderators) checked, 1) the address from which the spam was sent was *NOT* among the 13'000 subscriber addresses to R-help 2) in one case, I replied to the address stating that it seemed that *e-mail account* had been hacked. The result was nil (NULL), i.e., my conclusion was a) the address was a really registered/existing e-mail address that gave no "mailer daemon" error b) it probably did go to the spammers: a legitimate user would have replied to me. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich (= provider of all the r-*@r-project.org mailman mailing lists) > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > ______________________________________________ > 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.