>>>>> "TL" == Thomas Lumley <tlum...@u.washington.edu>
>>>>> on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:39:33 -0800 (PST) writes:
TL> The same company caused a complaint about a year ago
TL> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-March/157423.html
thanks, Thomas.
TL> The mailing company they are using (iContact.com) claims to have a
tough antispam policy. So does everyone, of course.
Indeed. Note that the 'From' (= Reply-To) address of their spam is valid;
if everyone replies (as I did) that they would never consider
their product because of their completely fraudulous spamming
(They have the infamous
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that action may help (or then may not ..).
Yes, "of course" they've probably harvested e-mails from the R
mailing lists (mirrors / repositories / ...), but at the moment,
please don't start a public discussion about the
non-appropriateness of mailing lists in the age of spam,
unless *YOU* are offering your time to provide something
"uniformly better" (i.e., for those who want, it *must* work via
e-mail exclusively, not via compulsory web-browser clicking).
Martin Maechler,
ETH Zurich
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