[R] Spammer? [wa Re: Fitting binomial lmer-model, high deviance and low logLik]

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Mon, 3 Dec 2012 01:18:13 +0000 writes:

    > rahul143 <rk204885 <at> gmail.com> writes:
    >> 

    >   I have a strong suspicion that this person is a spammer.

    > Evidence:

    >   1.  24 e-mails to the r-help list in a little over an
    > hour, which is excessive even for a real person.  2.  The
    > questions range extremely widely, especially for a
    > beginner in R.  3.  All of the questions include a
 
    >> TO GET MORE DETAILS CLICK HERE

    > line, which I'm guessing was a spam-link that got filtered
    > by the mailing list software.

    >   4. At least two of the questions are exact duplicates of
    > old questions.

    > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-December/084537.html
    > (broken link:)
    > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20101105/
    > 4ae4e9c6/attachment.pl
 
    >   Could a list moderator see about banning them?  (If
    > rahul143 is a real person with real statistical questions,
    > perhaps it could explain itself ...)

Thanks a lot, Ben.
Unfortunately, this new spam trick hit over the weekend,
and so we, the list moderators, were slightly less alert than usual.

It's very unfortunate though.  Please R-help readers do apologize.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich