Thank you for all the thoughts about alleviating these problems, both to us and the "newbies" (or otherwise e-mail clueless subscribers).
>>>>> Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> >>>>> on Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:37:22 -0600 writes: > Following on Rich and Peter, is it practical for the list to put it at the top then, before the R-message? > Something like: > TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the list: see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help Indeed, that is possible for mailman lists as I see. It looks ugly to me but I have been brought up in the age where civilized letters started (in English) with 'Dear ..' and e-mails were electronic letters.. and that age has gone... Shall we do that in spite of esthetic reasons? and keep the current footer? Martin > And then continue on for each R message. Because top-posting has pretty much taken over, the best efforts of puritans notwithstanding, putting stuff at the bottom is unlikely to evoke much attention, and especially so in our 140-character-3-second attention-span world. > As an aside, if I were the OP, and wanted to unsubscribe, the volume of the e-mail messages on this topic alone would have been punishment enough for the original post:-) > Best wishes, > Ranjan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.