I'm a recent subscriber to the list. I was very impressed by the quality of people subscribing to the list, including the authors of all the books on R thateither I own or are present in my local uni library. However, I was astonished by the volume of messages. I have set up a folder for R messages, route the messages there automatically, and browse it at times of low panic levels.
Personally, I think this list would be much better served by a standard bulletin board. The list could be broken down into a number of topics (e.g. Newbie questions, etc. etc.), the messages would be stored under threads so that people could choose to read or not read based on the topic. 'Sticky' threads could be left at the top so that new subscriberts would see them, and people who only want to follow a very few threads could tick the box for email alerts. Finally, there could be a search box enabling people to search out past answers (I know that this is possible now). An example board is: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php Comments? Cheers, Ross-c ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html