Re: [R] anonymous postings

2006-03-04 Thread Martin Maechler
Globe == Globe Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:23:38 -0800 (PST) writes: Globe Thanks! I will not give my e-mail address (hence the Globe real name and affiliation), until the R-newsgroup Globe moderators stop saving e-mail addresses to the Globe archive, for

Re: [R] anonymous postings

2006-03-04 Thread Ingmar Visser
On 3/4/06 11:11 AM, Martin Maechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly to Brian, I'm much more reluctant to help people who don't exist :-) -- who knows, maybe you're a computer program who has just passed the Turing test :-) Wouldn't he deserve more help as such? fully non-anonymous,

Re: [R] anonymous postings

2006-03-04 Thread Spencer Graves
If a computer is now passing the Turing test, I hope it will help us all by becoming a more frequent contributer R-help -- sorting through all the previous posts and answering questions that have been answered before faster than anyone else! (That might be bad news for people who