I was trying to keep it to 4 lines making it more likely read than a longer description.
On 7/16/06, Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Gabor: > > Sounds great. May I suggest a minor modification something like the > following; > > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE include in your post minimal, self-contained, reproducible > code as suggested in posting guide, > "www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html". Posts more consistent with this > standard tend to get quicker, more useful replies. > > I'd also suggest adding something like this to the Special Interest > Group posts as well. I also reply to questions on R-sig-finance, and I > find myself going to R-help to copy the "PLEASE do read the posting > guide" comment for r-sig-finance. > > Thanks for suggesting this. > Spencer Graves > > Gabor Grothendieck 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
