R help - Jun 2009 - What has happened to the R-Help Google Groups Archive? Alternative?

Greetings,

I usually read this mailing list through google groups
(http://groups.google.com/group/r-help-archive), but when I opened the
webpage this morning it said: "The group named r-help-archive has been
removed because it violated Google's Terms Of Service."

Is there an alternative website which uses a similar structure to
google groups? I had a quick browse on the R Wiki
(http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=links:links) but didn't
see a page with this sort of info.

Thank you kindly,
Tony Breyal

On 6/22/2009 7:23 AM, Tony Breyal wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I usually read this mailing list through google groups
> (http://groups.google.com/group/r-help-archive), but when I opened the
> webpage this morning it said: "The group named r-help-archive has been
> removed because it violated Google's Terms Of Service."
> 
> Is there an alternative website which uses a similar structure to
> google groups? I had a quick browse on the R Wiki
> (http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=links:links) but didn't
> see a page with this sort of info.
gmane.org has an archive at 
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general, but I don't know if it 
is similar enough for you.  You might want to contact Google to ask what 
terms of service were violated.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Thank you kindly,
> Tony Breyal
> 
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Gmane has already been mentioned, and you might also want to consider
Nabble -- judging from my referrer logs many people use it to read
r-help. If you use Gmail, you might also want to consider subscribing
to the list and using a simple filter. Details and links at
blog.revolution-computing.com, here:

http://bit.ly/FE2s9

# David Smith

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Tony Breyal<tony.breyal at
googlemail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I usually read this mailing list through google groups
> (http://groups.google.com/group/r-help-archive), but when I opened the
> webpage this morning it said: "The group named r-help-archive has been
> removed because it violated Google's Terms Of Service."
>
> Is there an alternative website which uses a similar structure to
> google groups? I had a quick browse on the R Wiki
> (http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=links:links) but didn't
> see a page with this sort of info.
>
> Thank you kindly,
> Tony Breyal
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Tony Breyal wrote:
> 
> Is there an alternative website which uses a similar structure to
> google groups? I had a quick browse on the R Wiki
> (http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=links:links) but didn't
> see a page with this sort of info.
> 
> 
For reading and searching, nothing beats markmail

http://r-project.markmail.org/

but posting is not possible. I have been using gmane almost exclusively, but
it's servers are overloaded and posting fails half the time. Nabble is a
good alternative, posting works much better because it does not complain
about "more than 80 characters in a line"; however, the tree is
inferior to
gmane because it is collapsed in the overview and you cannot see who has
responded to a thread.


Dieter

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