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The last two times I have originated message threads on R or Bioconductor I have received the message included below from someone named Patrick Connolly. Both times I was the originator of the message thread and used what I thought was a unique subject line that explained as best I could what my question was. Patrick seems to be implying that I am abusing the R and BioC help newsgroups in this fashion. When I emailed him to give me a specific example, he did not reply. The most recent thread that he seems concerned about was to the R list and was entitled "regexpr and parsing question" . I believe the previous post of mine that he had problems with was to the BioC list but I can't remember its subject. Is this spam? If I am doing this correctly, you should see the subject "possible spam alert" in the subject header of THIS message. Would the moderators of the lists please check and see if I am doing some wrong and, if not, inform Mr. Connolly that I am not. If others have received this message in error, it is possible it is spam and users should be alerted. Thanks, Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD Official Business Address: Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine PR M116 Institute of Psychiatric Research 791 Union Drive Indianapolis, IN 46202 This is a request to anyone who starts a new subject to begin with a new message and NOT reply to an existing one. If your mail client is any good, it's very simple to set up an alias (mine is simply 'r') so that the tedious task of typing 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch' is unnecessary and it's quicker than scrolling through an address book. It's also quicker than deleting the previous subject. Most mornings, I have over a screenful of messages mostly from R-help and it's very useful to have them threaded. However, the usefulness of threading is lost when posters reply to a message and then change the subject instead of creating a new message. People who don't have a mail client that can display email in threads are probably unaware that this sort of thing can happen in ones that do: 37 N 25 Jan Luis Silva ( 34) [R] plot/screen 38 N 25 Jan Uwe Ligges ( 55) `-> 39 N 25 Jan Fernando Henrique Ferra ( 20) [R] Plotting coloured histograms -> 40 N 26 Jan Mohamed A. Kerasha ( 12) |->[R] Distributions. 41 N 26 Jan ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk ( 26) | |-> 42 26 Jan Qin Xin ( 9) | `->[R] how could I add legends 43 27 Jan Ko-Kang Kevin Wang ( 31) | `-> 44 N 26 Jan Remigijus Lapinskas ( 32) |->Re: [R] Plotting coloured his 45 N 26 Jan Damon Wischik (125) `-> 46 N 25 Jan Rex_Bryan at urscorp.com ( 10) [R] plotting primatives, ellipse 47 N 25 Jan Uwe Ligges ( 19) `-> As Martin Maechler explained some time ago, it also screws up the archives for a similar reason. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. best -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Middle minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Anon ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ~.
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