Can a CAPTCHA be implemented as a prevenative measure > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:33 AM > To: Gorden T Jemwa > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] UNSOLITED E_MAILS: Integrate R data-analysis > projects wi > > On 18-Mar-08 12:08:44, Gorden T Jemwa wrote: > > Dear R Admins, > > > > I received an unsolicited e-mail from BlueInference as an R > user. Does > > it mean that R that our e-mails (and names) is sharing it's user > > database with third parties without our consent? Or perhaps the > > BlueInference guys are using an e-mail address miner to get our > > contact details? > > [SNIP] > > Dear Gorden Jemwa, > > > > As a fellow R user, I am sure you agree with me that R is a > dear gift > > from the R-project community that should enjoy broad use. > > [...] > > Ben Hinchliffe > > Inference Evangelist > > BlueReference, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It would not be difficult to mine a database of email > addresses from the R-help archives. Each month's postings can > be downloaded as a .gz file. Each posting in the resulting > unzipped .txt file has a line of the form > > From: user.name at email.domain > > and all that's then needed is to replace " at " with "@", and > you have the email address. > > On a Unix system, a quick 'grep | sed' would do the job in a second! > > In this case, the spam was clearly carefully targeted at R > users, so quite possibly they took a bit more trouble over it > (to the point of extracting full names as well). > > I can't see the R people deliberately sharing their database, > and the list of subscribed email addresses is accessible only > to the list owners. So it seems much more likely that the > publicly readable archives have been mined along the lines I > suggest above. > > Best wishes, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 18-Mar-08 Time: 12:32:30 > ------------------------------ 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. >
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