On 22/10/2009, at 8:37 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Charles Annis, P.E.
<charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com> wrote:
David:
Do you mean "inappropriate" or "embarrassing?"
How would we R-ians know what has happened at REVolution were it
not for
Ajay's note? Were you planning a press release? Something like,
"47% of
Revolution summarily fired. Nobody left with more than a year of
experience...?"
Ajay's "note" was a verbatim cut n paste from Danese Cooper's blog,
with no comment, editorial, opinion, or anything. Although Danese may
well be an open-source evangelist, that doesn't mean her blog is
public domain. This was essentially MLP[1] which I don't think we want
on the R-help list. Anyone who cares about REvolution will already be
following the relevant blogs, reading the New York Times, and the
words of the prophet that were written on the subway walls.
Well I don't know how much I ***care*** about REvolution,
but I'm at least vaguely interested. And I was toadally
unaware of what was going on until I read Ajay's post.
(I don't read the New York Times, or blogs, or subway walls.)
So from my pov Ajay did the community a service.
Oops I went all Simon and Garfunkel there.
If people want to add value to relevant blog posts onto R-news by
commenting and inviting discussion then that's fine by me. But no more
cut n paste jobs.
Barry
[1] Mindless Link Propogation - when someone just emails "Hey guyz
look at this : http://example.com/lulz";
Hey Baz; sometimes things just speak for themselves. No
commentary is necessary.
cheers,
Rolf
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