On 07-Jul-09 21:59:41, Hans W Borchers wrote: > Dear List: > An e-mail mentioning the r-project.org address and sent to a friend > at a German university was considered spam by the local spam filter. > > Its reasoning: the URL "r-project.org" is blacklisted at > uribl.swinog.ch resp. > at antispam.imp.ch. I checked the list > > http://antispam.imp.ch/swinog-uri-rbl.txt [caution: long list] > > and indeed, there it was. Can anybody explain how or why the R project > made its way onto the list? Is it reasonable to file a protest? > --Hans Werner
This is clearly a very undiscriminating blacklist. My own ISP (zen.co.uk, highly respected) is listed! I am reminded of the scandalous blacklist maintained by SORBS ( http://www.us.sorbs.net ) -- now happily, it seems, about to die -- whose motive seemed to be to blacklist on the slightest pretext in order to demand exSORBitant fees for removal ($25 per *reported* "spam"). At one time, the UK academic community subscribed to SORBS, with the effect that I was unable to email to any UK academic institution because my IP address, dynamically allocated on dial-up by British Telecom, was balcklisted by SORBS. I found a work-round, but ... . It seems the UK academic community dropped SORBS, and now similar abandonment (see at above URL) may prompt the welcome closure of SORBS. General information about this blacklist can be found by going one up on your URL to: http://antispam.imp.ch/ Your German will be better than mine, so you will be better placed to try to find out what may be involved in getting "r-project.org" de-listed. Another suggestion is to ask your friend to try to get his University to abandon antispam.imp.ch altogether, on the grounds that it is preventing a perfectly honest domain (with importance for the work of the University) from communicating with people in the University. And the best of luck. In my experience, sometimes the administrators of computing resources can be less interested in supporting their users than in "ticking the boxes" handed down by their management -- who, I hope, may evolve to thinking outside the box, going forward.[*] Good luck! Ted. [*] With acknowledgements to Lucy Kellaway: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3cb5f0fa-8965-11dc-b52e-0000779fd2ac.html See also: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4238cace-b6f2-11dc-aa38-0000779fd2ac.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/48e4569a-cb56-11dc-97ff-000077b07658.html and, last but not least: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7880e774-99f1-11dc-ad70-0000779fd2ac.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Jul-09 Time: 00:18:25 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@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.