Hi Patric,
Thanks for your explanation and suggestions. I didn't know that it might
happen. Sorry about that. A good lesson for the future post.
Thanks again.
Halim
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:00:28 +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote
> This is a request to anyone who starts a new subject to begin with a
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> that the tedious task of typing 'r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch' is
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> It's also quicker than deleting the previous subject.
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> Most mornings, I have as many as a hundred messages mostly from R-
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> of threading is lost when posters reply to a message and then change
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> 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
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> 37 N 25 Jan Luis Silva ( 34) [R] plot/screen
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> 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 rip...@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)
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> primatives, ellipse 47 N 25 Jan Uwe Ligges ( 19) `-
> >
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> As Martin Maechler explained some time ago, it also screws up the
> archives for a similar reason. What's more, you run the risk of
> having your message deleted if it's in a thread that is being deleted
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> see it.
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