From pauljohn32 at gmail.com  Fri Aug 20 20:12:01 2010
From: pauljohn32 at gmail.com (Paul Johnson)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:12:01 -0500
Subject: [Rd]  No RTFM?
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
> ?What do you think about adding a "No RTFM" policy to the R mailing lists?
> Per, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM":
>
I think this is a great suggestion.

I notice the R mailing list already has a gesture in this direction:
"Rudeness and ad hominem comments are not acceptable. Brevity is OK."

But the people who behave badly don't care about policies like this
and they will keep doing what they do.

pj

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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
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University of Kansas



[Rd] No RTFM?
Paul Johnson