On 7/16/06, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I doubt anyone actually reads the bottom of the emails, > and generally it is too late anyway, as they have already sent the > message. Much like the opening text in R, details in footer tend to > trigger legalese neurons and are largely ignored.
They might read it when reading other people's messages since it would be at the bottom of every single one. > I think it would be more useful to radically redesign the signup page > so that pertinent information is highlighted and the page made easily > scannable. As it is, the eye tends to skip to the action part and > fill out name and email address without reading the rest of the page. Good idea. Of course these are not mutually exclusive. > > Hadley > > On 7/16/06, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to propose that we change the trailer on r-help > > messages which is currently: > > > > [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 > > > > to add the following 4th line: > > > > and provide minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > The posting guide is so long that I suspect few people really read > > it so at least this way the most important part of the message about > > posting would be readily visible without further user action. > > > > Of course minimal refers to cutting the code down to remove > > anything not related to the question at hand while self-contained > > and reproducible refer to being able to copy the code from > > the post and paste it into an R session to reproduce the > > problem. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [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 > > > ______________________________________________ [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
