On 11/10/2011 02:32 PM, Cem Girit wrote:
Hello David,
I am terribly sorry. I could never imagine that my naive
questions could offend an experienced R-user such as you so much that he
would publicly declare that he is no longer going to help me in the future!
Wow; I did not know that using R-Help like this is a cult like activity.
Greetings,
I can assure you that your opinion is welcome here. I do not accept
views like those expressed above of the kind "quit it, it's the way it
works here". Open source software is, like the scientific process, about
innovation and open-mindedness, not being held hostage by the past. If
good ideas never met controversy, we would live in a perfect world.
Speaking of your suggestions, it sure would help to have more content in
a posting, such as pictures or data files, but it might limit the
portability of the messages: I am quite sure that in five years from now
we will be able to access this text. Not so as for auxiliary content.
Short-term gains in efficiency might come at the expense of the
posting's useful life (i.e. those guys having the very same question as
you do).
I really like the possibility of accessing this list from an email
client, with the old "offline feel" once you downloaded the latest
messages in your client, without all sorts of online bells and whistles,
but I agree that it's an asset to have a web interface, for those who
don't like "the good ol'way". I like the idea of having different ways
to do the same things, and that's why I use R. I believe a good approach
is like that of the openSUSE forums (just picking a familiar example),
with a web interface and also an NNTP access, emulating a mailing list.
I would love to have different topics or (for NNTP) different newsgroup
channels.
It's up to the maintainers or interested contributers.
Philippe Baril Lecavalier
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