Hello Martin and Ted, First off thank you to you guys and all the volunteers for providing this wonderful service. I have two questions.
1) Do you know if it is a problem to respond to a post from nabble using a gmail account? 2) Would it be easier for you if people just used non free accounts? I don't particularly relish the idea, but if it helped it would be worth it. Thanks again, Josh On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > Dear readers of R-help > > as most of you will *not* be aware, R-help has continued to work the > way it does, only thanks to a dozen of volunteers, > see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help . > > The volunteers manually moderate e-mails that "look like spam" (and > sometimes are and sometimes are not). > While much more than 90% of the spam is filtered out long before > a human sees it, with the increasing sophistication of spammers, > manual intervention has deemed to be necessary and served the > community very well. > > OTOH, in recent weeks, the amount of work for the volunteers has > increased, mainly because an increasingly number of non-spam postings are > erronously tagged as "possibly spam". > We have discussed about this and done some analysis and found > that most of these message that produce a considerable amount of > extra work share two properties : > 1) they are posted via Nabble {which *always* attaches a small > pro-Nabble spam at the end of the message} > 2) the e-mail address of the sender is from a freemail > provider, quite often 'at gmail dot com', and often the part > *before* the '@' (at-sign) ends with digits. > > We hereby ask those among you who use a freemail account to > please no longer post via nabble. > > Thank you for your support of R-help, *the* "community mailing > list" of the R project since even before that project existed > "formally", namely since 1997-04-01, > today 13 years and two months. > > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > (and R-help creator and principal manager) > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
