[R] Bounced mail to CRAN

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Lemon <jim.lemon at uts.edu.au> writes:

    Jim> Sorry to bother the help list with this, but I've sent
    Jim> two messages to: cran at r-project.org

    Jim> to notify about an upload and both have bounced due to:

    Jim> <cran at r-project.org>: Mail Server is down or
    Jim> unreachable.

Why should *that* be reachable?

The R FAQ (and other places) contains

 FAQ>      To "submit" to CRAN, simply upload to
 FAQ>   `ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming/' and send an email to
 FAQ>   <wwwadmin at cran.r-project.org>.

which is quite a different address.

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((can you really not get rid of such stuff -- particularly when
  posting to mailing lists ?))

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