On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First, you replied to the list and not to me, which was discourteous. > > You mean that he replied to the list *only*, I hope.
Yes, and it was written as if to me, and was a reply to an email from me. > I usually consider it offensive when people reply to me and not the > list (reasons including: It feels like being grabbed by the sleeve, I > might not actually be the best source for the answer, and it's > withholding the answer from the rest of the subscribers.) We do ask people to copy to the list. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
