The irony is of course that I just received a spam response myself in response to the below, so it’s clearly some automated scheme :-)
I will make the mailman archives private now. (For those worried that this stops the archives from being publicly indexed at mail-archive.com, this should not be the case, because mail-archive.com is subscribed for this purpose. We’ll monitor this nonetheless.) -hilmar > On Jan 22, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hilmar.l...@duke.edu> wrote: > > >> On Jan 22, 2016, at 3:16 AM, Vojtěch Zeisek <vo...@trapa.cz> wrote: >> >> PS: Later yesterday I have received spam answering my original post. Spammer >> is obviously subscribed and harvesting mails passing through the conference >> and then mailing users off-list. > > Just to clarify for everyone, the perpetrators of this kind of spam are *not* > subscribed, at least not with the address (or one similar to it) that they > are spamming from. I can say this because I’ve blocked the whole TLD (.xyz) > from subscribing, and no .xyz emails are subscribed. > > It is of course possible that the perpetrators *are* subscribed with a > legit-looking email, and then spam from throw-away addresses. This would be > very difficult to combat (there are currently > 1000 subscribers to this > list, making it futile to try to scrutinize every subscribed address). It is > also possible (and much more likely IMO) that the perpetrators feed off of a > public mailing list archive. I just noticed that the public mailman archive > apparently does not obfuscate the sender addresses (which apparently is > controlled by a setting not available to list administrators, but only to > sysadmins at the host). I am probably going to make the list archives > private, which would require people perusing an indexed public 3rd party mail > archive (such as that at > http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/). Those are much more > usable than the mailman archive anyway, so perhaps the impact of this step in > terms of accessibility may be small. > > -hilmar > -- > Hilmar Lapp -:- genome.duke.edu -:- lappland.io > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/ -- Hilmar Lapp -:- genome.duke.edu -:- lappland.io
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