[R] r-project.org address blacklisted by anti-spam software

[John Kane]

--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:

> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [R] r-project.org address blacklisted by anti-spam software
> To: "Hans W Borchers" <hwborchers at googlemail.com>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Received: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 6:15 PM
> On 07/07/2009 5:59 PM, Hans W
> Borchers wrote:
> > Dear List:
> > 
> > An e-mail mentioning the r-project.org address and
> sent to a friend at a German
> > university was considered spam by the local spam
> filter.
> > 
> > Its reasoning: the URL "r-project.org" is blacklisted
> at uribl.swinog.ch resp.
> > at antispam.imp.ch. I checked the list
> > 
> >     http://antispam.imp.ch/swinog-uri-rbl.txt 
> [caution: long list]
> > 
> > and indeed, there it was. Can anybody explain how or
> why the R project made its
> > way onto the list? Is it reasonable to file a
> protest?
> 
> Presumably you should be asking those questions to someone
> at the antispam site, or at the university you can't send
> email to.
> 
> Duncan
l I send as spam.  The ways of spam filters are extremely strange.



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