The suggestion that "a virus floating around on this distribution list" is baseless. All source code distributed on the list is embedded in messages in plaintext -- i.e. there is no distribution of binary files as part of the mailing list. How would a virus propagate under these circumstances?
Your complaint is almost certainly the result of your email client and its particular configuration. * Sent from my BlackBerry handheld device -----Original Message----- From: Scott Compton <scomp...@duke.edu> Sender: <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:32:15 To: Erik Iverson<er...@ccbr.umn.edu> Cc: <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] question about unwanted addresses in contact list 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
