[R] [OT] _ inserted in postings

2009-09-08 Thread Ted Harding
Sorry if this is too OT, but there is a particular relevance to postings to R-help. Of recent times, I have received several postings via R-help (and some other mailing-lists) in which the _ character is inserted where, presumably, a space, , was intended. An example (received this morning) is

Re: [R] [OT] _ inserted in postings

2009-09-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Sep-09 10:40:18, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 08/09/2009 6:09 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: Sorry if this is too OT, but there is a particular relevance to postings to R-help. Of recent times, I have received several postings via R-help (and some other mailing-lists) in which the _ character

Re: [R] [OT] _ inserted in postings

2009-09-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 08/09/2009 6:09 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: Sorry if this is too OT, but there is a particular relevance to postings to R-help. Of recent times, I have received several postings via R-help (and some other mailing-lists) in which the _ character is inserted where, presumably, a space, , was

Re: [R] [OT] _ inserted in postings

2009-09-08 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Tue, 08-Sep-2009 at 06:40AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I don't see the underscores in that posting, but I do see this as the last line in the headers: That's interesting. I see them using Mutt as well as with Thunderbird. I bounced the message to a Yahoo account, and the underscores