Kimpel, Mark William wrote: > The last two times I have originated message threads on R or > Bioconductor I have received the message included below from someone > named Patrick Connolly. Both times I was the originator of the message > thread and used what I thought was a unique subject line that explained > as best I could what my question was. Patrick seems to be implying that > I am abusing the R and BioC help newsgroups in this fashion. > > When I emailed him to give me a specific example, he did not reply. The > most recent thread that he seems concerned about was to the R list and > was entitled "regexpr and parsing question" . I believe the previous > post of mine that he had problems with was to the BioC list but I can't > remember its subject. > > Is this spam? > No. Breach of netiquette, yes.
The message in question starts a new thread, yet contains an In-Reply-To: header line, which presumably means that you started writing the message as a reply to something completely unrelated, specifically: "Re: [R] change plotting symbol for groups in trellis graph". You should not do that, unless you know how to remove the In-Reply-To line (and this is not obvious in many mail clients); changing the subject is not sufficient. > If I am doing this correctly, you should see the subject "possible spam > alert" in the subject header of THIS message. > > Would the moderators of the lists please check and see if I am doing > some wrong and, if not, inform Mr. Connolly that I am not. If others > have received this message in error, it is possible it is spam and users > should be alerted. > > Thanks, > > Mark > > Mark W. Kimpel MD > > > > > > Official Business Address: > > > > Department of Psychiatry > > Indiana University School of Medicine > > PR M116 > > Institute of Psychiatric Research > > 791 Union Drive > > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > > > This is a request to anyone who starts a new subject to begin with a new > message and NOT reply to an existing one. If your mail client is any > good, it's very simple to set up an alias (mine is simply 'r') so that > the tedious task of typing 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch' is unnecessary and > it's quicker than scrolling through an address book. > It's also quicker than deleting the previous subject. > > Most mornings, I have over a screenful of messages mostly from R-help > and it's very useful to have them threaded. However, the usefulness of > threading is lost when posters reply to a message and then change the > subject instead of creating a new message. > > People who don't have a mail client that can display email in threads > are probably unaware that this sort of thing can happen in ones that do: > > > 37 N 25 Jan Luis Silva ( 34) [R] plot/screen > 38 N 25 Jan Uwe Ligges ( 55) `-> > 39 N 25 Jan Fernando Henrique Ferra ( 20) [R] Plotting coloured > histograms > -> 40 N 26 Jan Mohamed A. Kerasha ( 12) |->[R] Distributions. > 41 N 26 Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( 26) | |-> > 42 26 Jan Qin Xin ( 9) | `->[R] how could I add > legends > 43 27 Jan Ko-Kang Kevin Wang ( 31) | `-> > 44 N 26 Jan Remigijus Lapinskas ( 32) |->Re: [R] Plotting > coloured his > 45 N 26 Jan Damon Wischik (125) `-> > 46 N 25 Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( 10) [R] plotting primatives, > ellipse > 47 N 25 Jan Uwe Ligges ( 19) `-> > > > As Martin Maechler explained some time ago, it also screws up the > archives for a similar reason. > > Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. > > best > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.