Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 09:07 AM 10/16/2002 -0500 Julia Thompson wrote: >1) He's up to his eyeballs in stuff at the moment, between work and >class and social life. He's putting more energies into listmail than to >private e-mails >2) Since you're so concerned about everyone being able to access stuff, >when peopl

Re: Yahoo!, was Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:58:40AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > 1) Posts have been archived on Yahoo for awhile. There were 2 > services archiving brin-l posts, and Yahoo absorbed them both. Yahoo > is where people are expecting to find the public archives. www.mail-archive.com is also archi

Re: Yahoo!, was Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread Julia Thompson
"J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > > At 10:58 16-10-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote about the Digest: > > >mccmedia sends it out when a threshold size has been reached, which > >leads to more than 25 messages, but generally fewer than 50. Maybe > >always fewer than 50.) > > There must be another var

Re: Yahoo!, was Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 10:58 16-10-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote about the Digest: >mccmedia sends it out when a threshold size has been reached, which >leads to more than 25 messages, but generally fewer than 50. Maybe >always fewer than 50.) There must be another variable at work with the Digests. I receive t

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 09:07 16-10-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: >2) Since you're so concerned about everyone being able to access stuff, >when people post links to information that isn't accessible to all, if >it's owned by the listmember who posted the link, why don't you ask >permission to mirror the info on

Re: Yahoo!, was Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn Blankenship wrote: > And not everybody CAN do that, having been locked out of Yahoo! and being > unable after multiple tries over the past several months (ever since Yahoo! > took over E-Groups) to get anything at all from their "help" service except > automated e-mail responses which do not

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread Julia Thompson
"J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > > At 23:48 15-10-2002 +0200, I politely asked JDG: > > >John, access to files in the Brin-L/Files section at Yahoo!Groups requires > >people to first join Brin-L through Yahoo!Groups. Not everyone may want to > >do that, so next time you want to share a file, could yo

Re: Yahoo!, was Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread Ronn Blankenship
At 04:48 PM 10/15/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote: >At 13:52 15-10-2002 -0700, John Giorgis wrote: > >>The following e-mail is from my Statistics Professor, after we had a >>discussion of the probabilities associated with the Washington Sniper in >>our most recent class. We now have 12 people shot in

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
Jeroen wrote: > At 23:48 15-10-2002 +0200, I politely asked JDG: > > >John, access to files in the Brin-L/Files section at Yahoo!Groups requires > >people to first join Brin-L through Yahoo!Groups. Not everyone may want to > >do that, so next time you want to share a file, could you please put it

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-16 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:46 AM Subject: Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper > At 23:48 15-10-2002 +0200, I politely asked JDG: > > >John, a

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-15 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 23:48 15-10-2002 +0200, I politely asked JDG: >John, access to files in the Brin-L/Files section at Yahoo!Groups requires >people to first join Brin-L through Yahoo!Groups. Not everyone may want to >do that, so next time you want to share a file, could you please put it up >in a place that

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-15 Thread Julia Thompson
Russell Chapman wrote: > > Julia Thompson wrote: > > >Um, I thought it was only up to 9. The FBI agent shot last night was > >listed as the 9th victim. Have there been 3 more that haven't shown up > >on Yahoo's news site? > > > My understanding (from a really long way away) is that there are 9

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-15 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson wrote: >Um, I thought it was only up to 9. The FBI agent shot last night was >listed as the 9th victim. Have there been 3 more that haven't shown up >on Yahoo's news site? > My understanding (from a really long way away) is that there are 9 dead, 12 shot (ie 3 injured). Cheers

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-15 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 13:52 15-10-2002 -0700, John Giorgis wrote: >The following e-mail is from my Statistics Professor, after we had a >discussion of the probabilities associated with the Washington Sniper in >our most recent class. We now have 12 people shot in 12 days,, so this >makes for pretty grim reading..

Re: Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-15 Thread Julia Thompson
"J.D. Giorgis" wrote: > > The following e-mail is from my Statistics Professor, > after we had a discussion of the probabilities > associated with the Washington Sniper in our most > recent class. We now have 12 people shot in 12 days, > so this makes for pretty grim reading Um, I thought

Statistics Class and the Washington Sniper

2002-10-15 Thread J.D. Giorgis
The following e-mail is from my Statistics Professor, after we had a discussion of the probabilities associated with the Washington Sniper in our most recent class. We now have 12 people shot in 12 days, so this makes for pretty grim reading JDG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brin-l/file