Message-ID: <CAE59diSa7V4JD2abyk+nnRH6jiKTdYzFKgJDeXgT+812iMamyw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2020-06-12T01:26:12Z
From: ELENI ADAM
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Subscription to the list problem
In-Reply-To: <24290.635.969694.481878@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Martin,
Thank you very much for your response.
It turned out that the confirmation emails were being blocked by the email
servers. The ITS released the emails and I was finally able to subscribe.
Kind regards,
Eleni
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:08 AM Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:
> >>>>> ELENI ADAM
> >>>>> on Tue, 9 Jun 2020 17:24:49 -0400 writes:
>
> > Hello, I have tried multiple times to subscribe to the
> > bioc-devel list by filling out the web form
> > (https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel) but I
> > have never received a confirmation email (I have checked
> > the Spam folder as well). After checking again, I am still
> > not in the list.
>
> > I am not sure what the problem is. Could you please help
> > me? Is there another way of subscribing to the list?
>
> Did you also fill the 'Captcha' ?
>
> This had been an important addition for security; as we had
> spammers (auto-) subscribing to some of the R mailing lists, and
> then spamming whoever *posted* to the list (and reusing their
> subject and other tricks as to pass any spam filters).
>
> Last but not least: You *are* subscribed to the list now.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
> > Thank you, Eleni
>
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>
> Martin Maechler
> ETH Zurich and R Core Team
>
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