On 14-Nov-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please don't take this the wrong way. There are a lot of extremely > helpful people who subscribe to r-help. > > I was wondering if it is time to adopt a strategy a-la Splus help > whereby people reply to the author and the author summarizes all the > replies? > > Just a thought and have a good weekend. > Partha
This has its merits, in reducing the load on the list and its readers. However, personally I like the way questions are bounced around between people. and answers are devoped "conversationally", as it were, and I think a lot would be lost if this were not to happen. On the whole, I welcome the load! R strikes me as somewhat special amongst languages in that there are a lot of hidden subtleties, which sometimes are only pointed out by the few people who are really familiar with them. At present this happens on-list and usually very promptly, and this timely intervention puts wrong ideas right before they get too deeply embedded; this benefit would tend to vanish if a "summarise to the list" policy were adopted. Of course there are some cases where a simple answer can be sent directly to a person asking a simple question, but my experience is that I have learned a lot about R by watching these dynamic discussions. I hope they will continue! Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 15-Nov-03 Time: 00:30:42 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help