From spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com  Sun Aug 22 03:29:04 2010
From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:29:04 -0700
Subject: [Rd] No RTFM?
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  I've answered many email posts by copying and editing the email 
footer.  That's much more friendly, informative and effective than just 
RTFM.  (As previously noted in this thread, it's often hard to know 
which FMTR.)


Spencer


On 8/21/2010 6:08 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Hadley Wickham<hadley at rice.edu>  wrote:
>>> Regarding length, the portion at the end of every r-help message (but
>>> this does not appear at the end of r-devel messages or the messages
>>> of other lists concerning R):
>>>
>>>    "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code."
>>>
>>> It was intended to provide a one line synopsis of the key part of the posting
>>> guide that could be readily pointed to.  Although we have to be careful about
>>> making that too verbose, as well, it might not be too onerous to add
>> But no one reads email footers...
>>
> I would expect that a lot more people read that than the posting guide.
>
> Its also useful as something to point to that is more accessible than
> the posting guide since its right there.
>
> One can be sure its been received since every message contains it.
>
> Finally it gives the key info that someone needs to effectively use r-help.
>
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[Rd] No RTFM?
Spencer Graves