Re: [R] anonymous postings
Globe == Globe Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:23:38 -0800 (PST) writes:
Globe Thanks! I will not give my e-mail address (hence the
Globe real name and affiliation), until the R-newsgroup
Globe moderators stop saving e-mail addresses to the
Globe archive, for spiders to pick up easily.
As we have explained repeatedly, this is not so easy.
The R-help mailing list is archived in several different formats by
different pieces of software, and all of the archivers would
have to remove the e-mail addresses {and yes, I agree there's
the specifically the point that for mailman's pipermail, there's
no such option, apart from the simple replacement of the at-sign
HOWEVER, and this is my main point: Even if you use an anonymized
E-mail address, why can't you decently give your real name and
address (w/o E-mail or other URL course !) in your signature?
Similarly to Brian, I'm much more reluctant to help people who
don't exist :-)
-- who knows, maybe you're a computer program who has just
passed the Turing test :-)
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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Re: [R] anonymous postings
On 3/4/06 11:11 AM, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly to Brian, I'm much more reluctant to help people who don't exist :-) -- who knows, maybe you're a computer program who has just passed the Turing test :-) Wouldn't he deserve more help as such? fully non-anonymous, ingmar -- Ingmar Visser Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam The Netherlands http://users.fmg.uva.nl/ivisser/ tel: +31-20-5256735 __ 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
Re: [R] anonymous postings
If a computer is now passing the Turing test, I hope it will help us all by becoming a more frequent contributer R-help -- sorting through all the previous posts and answering questions that have been answered before faster than anyone else! (That might be bad news for people who take pride in providing the first answer, but ... .) spencer graves Ingmar Visser wrote: On 3/4/06 11:11 AM, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly to Brian, I'm much more reluctant to help people who don't exist :-) -- who knows, maybe you're a computer program who has just passed the Turing test :-) Wouldn't he deserve more help as such? fully non-anonymous, ingmar __ 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
