Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-10 Thread François Pinard
[Marc Schwartz] The Human Spam Filter (aka Martin) [...] The R mailing list has, indeed, be remarkably spam-free, and well-managed so far that I can see. I do hope, however, that Martin does not have to do the filtering himself -- it would be just daunting! In any case, Martin, a lot of

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:17 -0500, François Pinard wrote: [Marc Schwartz] The Human Spam Filter (aka Martin) [...] The R mailing list has, indeed, be remarkably spam-free, and well-managed so far that I can see. I do hope, however, that Martin does not have to do the filtering himself

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-09 Thread Horacio Castellini
Ya me parecía que no me pasaba solo a mi... :) uhmmm falló el spam-filter? Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Lemon
Horacio Castellini wrote: Ya me parecía que no me pasaba solo a mi... :) uhmmm falló el spam-filter? Si, es todos que lee R-news, pero maravillo, que es el palabra para spam en español? Jim __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-09 Thread Martin Maechler
DB == Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:57:28 -0600 writes: DB On 3/6/07, Bert Gunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some

[R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Bert Gunter
Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my end? Feel free to reply privately. Thanks. Bert Gunter Genentech

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Carlos Guerra
Dear Gunter, I am having the same problem at my email box. Bert Gunter escreveu: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Bert Gunter wrote: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my end? Feel free to reply privately. Martin

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/6/07, Bert Gunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my end? There has indeed been

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:23 -0800, Bert Gunter wrote: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my end? Feel

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Fernando Mayer
Not in the past 2 days, but only today I've received already more than 40 spams from R-help and R-sig-* too. Rarely I received a spam from these lists... Fernando Mayer. Bert Gunter escreveu: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Carlos Guerra
Dear Mark, If you are using an email program like thunderbird or any other you can filter your emails by key (not very amusing) words at the source. Best regards, Carlos Mark W Kimpel escreveu: me too. Over 50% of messages are spam. I also noted the same thing on ESS-help. Carlos Guerra

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread fernando espindola
Bert Gunter wrote: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem on my end? Feel free to reply privately. Thanks.

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Mark W Kimpel
me too. Over 50% of messages are spam. I also noted the same thing on ESS-help. Carlos Guerra wrote: Dear Gunter, I am having the same problem at my email box. Bert Gunter escreveu: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
Carlos Guerra wrote: Dear Gunter, I am having the same problem at my email box. Our warmest thanks to Martin Maechler who managed to keep us free from spam for so many years on the R mailing lists!!! Uwe Ligges Bert Gunter escreveu: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Douglas Bates
On 3/6/07, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bert Gunter wrote: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some change to the spam filters on the R-servers? If not, is the problem

Re: [R] Off topic:Spam on R-help increase?

2007-03-06 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 12:36 -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: On 3/6/07, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bert Gunter wrote: Folks: In the past 2 days I have seen a large increase of spam getting into R-help. Are others experiencing this problem? If so, has there been some