On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: >>>>>> "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 > > >> You received this email because you’ve subscribed to the > >> Inference for R newsletter or downloaded Inference for R. > >> To unsubscribe, click the "To be removed" link below. > ) > 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).
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