Donald Burrill wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Michael Atherton wrote in part:
>
> > ... If you do not believe this is true, please refer
> > to the attached bibliography.
>
> I take it this refers to the MSWord document, which was not attached but
> embedded in the mail message. It's annoying enough to receive attachments
> that are unreadable unless one has a particular application software, but
> at least those who do can save the attachment as a file thmat later can be
> submitted to the application. When it's embedded in the message, one must
> save the whole message including the embedded file, and later edit the
> saved file to remove the front end (header and message) that will only
> confuse the application. Even more annoying. Especially when one
> doesn't have the application.
I'm VERY sorry about that! I'll include a text version at the bottom of this
message. I am ashamed to admit that I've become a habitual Windows user.
My sincere apologies to everyone!
> > A search of the last six months of posts does not indicate
> > that an FAQ has been posted in that time period, nor is the
> > FAQ posted at http://www.faqs.org/. If someone would
> > send me a copy I will be careful to abide by its guidelines.
>
> As I understand such things, doubtless imperfectly, FAQ stands for
> "Frequently Asked Questions". A list of FAQ would therefore not include
> questions that are asked rarely, one would suppose. So, in your search
> of messages posted to this list, how many position-wanted requests did
> you find? Zero? One?
Newsgroup FAQs have traditionally defined the rules or guidelines
and are normally posted monthly. For an example take a look at the FAQ
for soc.feminism: http://www.io.com/~tittle/feminism/info.html
If I could have found the FAQ I would have been informed that posts
are automatically forwarded to your list sever and could have avoided
this exchange. Also, I now believe that netiquette violations
are best enforced in private email to avoid additional
inappropriate messages, but since both of you have selected
to make your opinions public, I will follow your lead.
> I am inclined to agree with Glen Barnett, who wrote
>
> > > This is a stats newsgroup - sci.STAT.edu
> > >
> > > This is not a group for discussion of education in general,
> > > but of statistical education.
>
> (Actually, for some of us it's not a newsgroup, it's a list: edstat .)
>
> One would have thought your post more appropriate to, say, the AERA list
> for Division D:
>
> "AERA-D Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think that your suggestion is completely reasonable, (with the
reservation that I am not sure that I would get unbiased
recommendations from an AERA list server), however it might
be even more reasonable to make your expectation known in advance.
Possibly some member of your list sever or a regular reader of the
newsgroup could volunteer to write an FAQ (if one doesn't already exist).
Mike
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