On 07/12/2007 12:26 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > On 06/12/2007, Loren Engrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As for news readers >> I found R and R.mac and R.Bio on the sites you recommend, thank you very >> much, they would avoid the individual emails, but then I would have to go >> look at them, which might be Ok >> >> Deluge? Well, there are from R and Bio and R-Mac every morning 30 or 35, and >> 10-15 more during the daytime, and ~50 deletes is painful >> >> But then every morning one or two are useful so... > > This what you want to you email filtering for. Create a (sub)folder > named "r-help", setup an email filter that sends all message that has > a subject starting with "[R] " to that folder. That way they will not > clutter up your inbox, but you can still browser the r-help messages.
That test will occasionally misclassify, because some private replies might keep the [R] in the subject. A more reliable test, if you can work with the undisplayed message headers, is to look for "r-help" in the List-Id: header. Duncan Murdoch > > You haven't told us your email client, but pretty much any client I > know of supports this. I use gmail as my client and there it is very > simple. This way reading message is no different from reading them > via a news reader. > >> Still would be fun to understand why some R are junk and some are not >> >> For example >> Today received two emails from the same person, one junk and the other not >> >> The Not Junk then went >> from sweep.unicas.it >> to phil2.ethz.ch >> to hypatia.math.ethz.ch >> >> The Junk went >> from sweep.unicas.it directly to >> to hypatia.math.ethz.ch >> >> Otherwise the same, so why one junk and the other not? > > FYI, I very very rarely get false positives (from the r-help lists) > and hardly any spam for that sake (thanks!) and I've been on the list > for a long time. I couldn't find a single one during the last 30 days > in my gmail spam box. > > It is impossible to tell why some of your message are falsely > classified as spam without know what your email client is. Some > clients have there own build in spam filtering that you can train by > pressing "This is spam/This is not spam", whereas others rely on their > email provider to analyze all messages and add a spam score in the > email header and then you can set up the client to filter those out > without much local analysis. The latter is common at universities. > > As already been suggested, it is more likely that this something that > you email provider/sys adm should be able to help you out with. To me > it sounds unlikely that there is something "wrong" with the R messages > or that R mail server is at fault. > > Hope this helps > > /Henrik > > > >> Thank you >> >> Engrav >> Univ Washington >> Seattle >> >> >>> From: David Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:13:12 -0800 (PST) >>> To: <r-help@r-project.org> >>> Subject: Re: [R] Junk or not Junk ??? >>> >>> >>> >>> Loren Engrav wrote: >>>> Thank you >>>> >>>> As per advice from several R users I have set >>>> >>>> r-project.org, stat.math.ethz.ch,fhcrc.org, stat.ethz.ch, math.ethz.ch, >>>> hypatia.math.ethz.ch >>>> >>>> all to be "safe domains" >>>> >>>> But still some R emails go to Junk and require to be found manually >>>> >>>> I have explored the issue with Univ Wash computing to no avail >>>> >>>> Is this just how it is or have I still missed the "fix" to keep R emails >>>> out >>>> of junk? >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>> I suspect most people that stay on this list read most posts through a news >>> reader... you might consider doing the same. I can't even imagine keeping up >>> with the daily deluge of individual emails. >>> >>> http://www.nabble.com/R-help-f13820.html >>> >>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> David Hewitt >>> Virginia Institute of Marine Science >>> http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Junk-or-not-Junk-tf4940701.html#a14193897 >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
