I've answered many email posts by copying and editing the email
footer. That's much more friendly, informative and effective than just
RTFM. (As previously noted in this thread, it's often hard to know
which FMTR.)
Spencer
On 8/21/2010 6:08 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Hadley Wickham<had...@rice.edu> wrote:
Regarding length, the portion at the end of every r-help message (but
this does not appear at the end of r-devel messages or the messages
of other lists concerning R):
"provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code."
It was intended to provide a one line synopsis of the key part of the posting
guide that could be readily pointed to. Although we have to be careful about
making that too verbose, as well, it might not be too onerous to add
But no one reads email footers...
I would expect that a lot more people read that than the posting guide.
Its also useful as something to point to that is more accessible than
the posting guide since its right there.
One can be sure its been received since every message contains it.
Finally it gives the key info that someone needs to effectively use r-help.
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