The guys didn't need to work very hard to obtain our data. (My understanding is that) all the mails from this list are publicly available at the R-help archives. You will find yourself here:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e4/help/08/03/index.html That is why we can (and must) browse through the history of the mail-list to avoid asking again an already-answered question. The bad side is that our name and email address are exposed. just in case: I have nothing to do with the spammers On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Gorden T Jemwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R Admins, > > I received an unsolicited e-mail from BlueInference as an R > user. Does it mean that R that our e-mails (and names) is > sharing it's user database with third parties without our > consent? Or perhaps the BlueInference guys are using an > e-mail address miner to get our contact details? > > > > [SNIP] > > Dear Gorden Jemwa, > > As a fellow R user, I am sure you agree with me that R is a > dear gift from the R-project community that should enjoy > broad use. Towards that end, we've built a software > solution directed at the very large community of Microsoft > Office users, called Inference for Office. It combines the > powerful data-analysis capabilities of R with the familiar > and flexible word-processing and data-preparation features > of Microsoft Word and Excel. We are making Inference for > Office available for free to R users at educational and > non-profit research institutions. A free trial is available > for everyone. > > With Inference for Office, you can assemble all the elements > of an R data-analysis project (text, data, R objects, R > code) into dynamic documents. These dynamic documents can > then be executed in real-time to create results documents > containing all the output and graphics. If Inference for > Office is of no interest to you, please disregard this > message and accept our humble apologies for having bothered you. > > If Inference for Office sounds like it might useful, you can > obtain additional information by visiting our website and > viewing a two-minute screencast overview of Inference for > Office: > > http://www.inference.us > > While you're there, you can also download a free trial of > Inference for Office > > To your success, > > --Ben > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . > Ben Hinchliffe > Inference Evangelist > BlueReference, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . > website: www.inference.us > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ahimsa campos-arceiz PhD candidate Lab of Biodiversity Science The University of Tokyo www.camposarceiz.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
