On 16/02/12 12:51, Sarah Goslee wrote:
Dear Martin,
Thank you for confirming what I'd already suspected
about the mailing list software.
What a pity that is not possible, but thank you very much Martin for
confirming and explaining why is not possible.
I've added hydrology explicitly to the list description, and
hope that the hydrologists find it a welcoming home. We've
got a solid core of participants, so R users should
find it a useful resource.
It is decided then.
Thank you very much Sarah for adding hydrology to the description of the
R-sig-ecology mailing list:
"The purpose of R-sig-ecology is two-fold. First, we want to provide a
discussion forum for those analyzing ecological and environmental data
with R, including but not limited to vegetation, soils and hydrology.
Second, we want to encourage R users of all ability and experience to
participate so that we may grow the community of ecologists and
environmental scientists that use R."
Thank you all for taking part in this discussion. I'll start spreading
the voice among colleagues.
I hope Dominik may mention this mailing list in the EGU 2012 short
course "Hydrological Analysis in R":
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/10635
All the best for the enhanced R-sig-ecology mailing list.
Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
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Sarah
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Martin Maechler
<maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
Hi,
I'm the "site maintainer" of the r-sig-...@r-project.org mailing
lists (and back from vacations).
Sarah Goslee<sarah.gos...@gmail.com>
on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:16:01 -0500 writes:
> Hi all,
>> It would be great if Sara of someone of the maintainers
>> of the r-sig-ecology list could add that info to the info page.
> I'm talking with the other maintainer about revising both
> the short and the long descriptions.
>> I think that r-sig-env would be much more intuitive for
>> environmental scientists coming from fields different
>> from ecology, but I don't think it is possible to change
>> the name of an existing mailing list.
yes, that would be only doable with much effort,
and (unless even more effort is put in) it would invalidate all
current links to the current archives etc.
>> However, I'm wondering if it would be possible to create
>> an alias termed 'r-sig-env' to 'r-sig-ecology' ?, in
>> order to make the name of the list more intuitive for
>> environmental scientists but without disturbing the
>> current users.
> I don't know that there is any mechanism for doing either
> of those things. Changing the name would be disruptive,
> and I don't know of an alias option.
there is none, on the mailing list level.
On the mail server side, I could create such aliases,
but then these would only apply to e-mail addresses and the ML
software would still "speak" of the official ML name...
Given all the issues and opinions heard so far, I'd also
propose trying to have hydrologists and other env.scientists
join the r-sig-ecology for the time being.
Brian Ripley has already mentioned the very important point,
that there's some often non-negligible admin overhead for each
list, and I can add that indeed, we have had several lists that
always remained too small and so never "started flying".
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