I also received the spam, and have not registered for the conference. I decided to do the noble experiment, and used their web interface to unsubscribe to the newsletter to which they claim I had subscribed, and for good measure added my name to their "do not contact" list.
albyn On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:06:11PM +0000, Dieter Menne wrote: > Dear List, > > I registered for the useR conference in Rennes today; half an hour after the > confirmation I received a first "requested newsletter" from a company selling > a > product named "Inference for R". > > This coincidence might be spurious. Or not, depending on frequency. > > Dieter > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
