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> 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> > 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> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.