It doesn't happen to other lists that I belong to, just the R lists. But I will check. Thanks for the tip.
Best, Scott On Aug 18, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Erik Iverson wrote: > > > Scott Compton wrote: >> Hi, >> It looks like about 200+ addresses from people who post on this list >> have been added to my contact list without my permission. Has this >> happened to other people? I use Mac OS. This is quite disconcerting >> and suggests a virus floating around on this distribution list. > > Very likely, your unstated mailer collects all addresses it 'sees' > and puts them in its address book. If you don't like this behavior, > it might be able to be turned off. But that depends on your > particular mail program, and not R. ______________________________________________ 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.
