Now that this mailing list seems to have managed to eliminate the malign influence of nabble, some clever Johnny seems to have come up with a new way to cloud the lines of communication. I have started receiving r-help emails from r-help-archive at googlegroups.com. It seems that one cannot reply to this address --- at least I can't. I tried a couple of times and got bounces. However I just received from r-help at r-project.org a reply by Jeff Newmiller to one of the posts that I received via "r-help-archive". So it seems that *Jeff* can reply to these things. So am I doing something wrong, or is "r-help-archive" messing things up for other people as well? And if the latter, can something be done to remove its malign influence? cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
> On 19 Apr 2017, at 09:48, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > Now that this mailing list seems to have managed to eliminate the malign influence of nabble, some clever Johnny seems to have come up with a new way to cloud the lines of communication. I have started receiving r-help emails from r-help-archive at googlegroups.com. It seems > that one cannot reply to this address --- at least I can't. I tried a couple of times and got bounces. > > However I just received from r-help at r-project.org a reply by Jeff Newmiller to one of the posts that I received via "r-help-archive". So it seems that *Jeff* can reply to these things. > > So am I doing something wrong, or is "r-help-archive" messing things up for other people as well? And if the latter, can something be done to remove its malign influence? >I have also received several messages addressed to r-help-archive at googlegroups.com. I junked most of these. I have not tried to reply to any of these messages. I did send a message some time ago to a poster on r-help-archive at googlegroups.com to stop doing this and to use the official help. Apparently to no avail. Seems like a good idea to give these mails the same treatment as stuff from nabble. Berend Hasselman> cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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.
I believe that the list maintainer is hunting this down. As I understood it, it was more due to incompetence than to actual malice. -pd> On 19 Apr 2017, at 09:48 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > Now that this mailing list seems to have managed to eliminate the malign influence of nabble, some clever Johnny seems to have come up with a new way to cloud the lines of communication. I have started receiving r-help emails from r-help-archive at googlegroups.com. It seems > that one cannot reply to this address --- at least I can't. I tried a couple of times and got bounces. > > However I just received from r-help at r-project.org a reply by Jeff Newmiller to one of the posts that I received via "r-help-archive". So it seems that *Jeff* can reply to these things. > > So am I doing something wrong, or is "r-help-archive" messing things up for other people as well? And if the latter, can something be done to remove its malign influence? > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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.-- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
On 19/04/17 20:01, peter dalgaard wrote:> I believe that the list maintainer is hunting this down. As I > understood it, it was more due to incompetence than to actual malice.Years ago I ran across an aphorism that very much appealed to me: "Never attribute to malice that which may be adequately explained by stupidity." More recently I saw the same sentiment, expressed only slightly differently, in someone's signature file --- can't remember whose. cheers, Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276