On 2018-04-19 09:40, Martin Maechler wrote:
Serguei Sokol <so...@insa-toulouse.fr>
on Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:29:54 +0200 writes:
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> Thanks Tomas for this detailed explanation.
> I would like also to signal a problem with the list. It must be
> corrupted in some way because beside the Tomas' response I've got five
> or six (so far) dating spam. All of them coming from two emails:
> Kristina Oliynik <kristinaoliynik604...@kw.taluss.com> and
> Samantha Smith <samanthasmith317...@kw.fefty.com>.
Well, that's the current ones for you. They change over time,
and in my experience you get about 10--20 (about once per hour;
on purpose not exactly every 60 minutes) and then it stops.
I've replied to the thread "Hacked" on R-help yesterday:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2018-April/452423.html
This has started ca 2 weeks ago on R-help already, and today
we've learned that even R-SIG-Mixed-Models is affected.
I think I don't see them anymore at all because my spam filters have adapted.
Note that
1. This is *NOT* from regular mailing list subscribers, and none
of these spam come via the R mailing list servers.
2. It's still a huge pain and disreputable to the R lists of course.
3. I had hoped we could wait and see it go away, but I may be wrong.
4. We have re-started discussing what could be done.
One drastic measure would make mailing list usage
*less* attractive by "munging" all poster's e-mail addresses.
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For now use your mail providers spam filters to quickly get rid
of this. .. or more interestingly and clearly less legally: use R to
write "mail bombs". Write an R function sending ca 10 e-mails per
hour randomly to that address ... ;-) I did something like
that (with a shell script, not R) at the end of last millennium
when I was younger and the internet was a much much smaller
space than now...
What about implementing "Mailhide", described in the Wikipedia
article on "reCAPTCHA"?
'[F]or example, "mai...@example.com" would be converted to
"mai...@example.com". The visitor would then click on the "..." and
solve the CAPTCHA in order to obtain the full email address. One can
also edit the pop-up code so that none of the address is visible.'
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA)
Of course, this is easier for me to suggest, because I'm not in a
position to actually implement it ;-)
Spencer Graves
p.s. I wish again to express my deep appreciation to Martin and the
other members of the R Core team who have invested so much time and
creativity into making The R Project for Statistical Computing the
incredible service it is today. A good portion of humanity lives better
today, because of problems that would not otherwise have been addressed
as well as they have been without some important analysis done with R.
Martin
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