On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:13 PM, John Sorkin <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote: > Peter, > I have sympathy for Dong. It would be helpful if the message at the bottom of > the Email were modified to be more directive, e.g. > > To modify your subscription (e.g. hold mail delivery during a vacation, > unsubscribe, etc.) go to https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
In principal, I believe this should be unnecessary. All of these directions are clearly given when you sign up for the list in the first place (and it is your job to remember or keep those). And searching for 'unsubscribe the R help' on Bing, Google, Yahoo, and Yandex all lead me to information on how to do so in the first few results. On the other hand, there are at least a few of these messages per month, suggesting that either people are unwilling to invest the time to search or the idea that the answer may be easily found on the internet simply does not occur to them. I do not think we want a lengthy footer, but something like: Unsubscribe here: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help may curtail these emails (I realize that more can be done at that address than merely unsubscribing, but saavy users wishing to make other modifications are perhaps competent enough to manage on their own). > > To make matters more complicated, I don't know what the first line of the > current message means: > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > I tried sending a test email message to the address with help in the subject > line and received an error message, > > The following message to <h...@r-project.org> was undeliverable. > The reason for the problem: > 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'Callout verification failed:\n550 5.1.1 > <h...@r-project.org>... User unknown' > > What is the meaning of the line R-help@r-project.org mailing list? > > John > > > > > > > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > (Phone) 410-605-7119 > (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > >>>> peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> 1/7/2012 4:50 PM >>> > > On Jan 7, 2012, at 20:26 , Dong Nie wrote: > >> Hi Sir, >> Could you help me to unsubscribe the R help? > > Follow the link at the bottom of every post. > >> Thanks, >> Dong >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> 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 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. > > > Confidentiality Statement: > This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
