Not necessarily. The R-help archives are publicly accessible, with a "sort by date" option. So if someone sets up a web=page monitor which reports back when new messages appear there (at the bpottom end), then their email addresses are readily copied (subject to " at " --> "@".
Once they have the address then anything can happen! Best wishes, Ted (eagerly awaiting attempted seduction ... ). On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 10:36 +0000, Fowler, Mark wrote: > Seems it must be the R-list. A horde of ‘solicitation’ emails began arriving > about 27 minutes after I posted about not seeing any! Had left work by that > time, so did not encounter them until now. > > From: Mark Leeds [mailto:marklee...@gmail.com] > Sent: April 18, 2018 12:33 AM > To: Rui Barradas > Cc: Ding, Yuan Chun; Fowler, Mark; Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder; R-Help ML > R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments > Subject: Re: [R] Hacked > > Hi All: I lately get a lot more spam-porn type emails lately also but I don't > know if they are due to me being on > the R-list. > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Rui Barradas > <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt<mailto:ruipbarra...@sapo.pt>> wrote: > Hello, > > Nor do I, no gmail, also got spam. > > Rui Barradas > > On 4/17/2018 8:34 PM, Ding, Yuan Chun wrote: > No, I do not use gmail, still got dirty spam email twice. > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org>] On > Behalf Of Fowler, Mark > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:32 PM > To: Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder > Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments > Subject: Re: [R] Hacked > > [Attention: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments > or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.] > > > > > > Just an observation. I have not seen the spam you are discussing. Possibly it > is specific to gmail addresses? > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org>] On > Behalf Of Luis Puerto > Sent: April 17, 2018 4:11 PM > To: Peter Langfelder > Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments > Subject: Re: [R] Hacked > > 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.langfel...@gmail.com<mailto:peter.langfel...@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.ster...@gmail.com<mailto:ulrik.ster...@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 <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us<mailto: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<mailto:neotropical.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi all, > > Site has been hacked? > Bad SPAM arriving > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org<mailto: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. 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