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 <jdnew...@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.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Site has been hacked? > >Bad SPAM arriving > > > >______________________________________________ > >R-help@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@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@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.