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Absolutely Important

Subscribing to/unsubscribing from the S-news mailing list.

Requests to be added or dropped from the S-news list should be sent to the electronic mail address s-news-request@utstat.toronto.edu. Sending a one line message saying either subscribe or unsubscribe will suffice.

Please do not send mail to s-news@utstat.toronto.edu since any mail sent to this address is automatically forwarded to thousands of other users.

Your local site may have many subscribers to S-news. In that case, it may have a local mailing list, so that a single message from utstat.toronto.edu is sent to the site and propagated to the local list. In this case please contact your system administrator to be added to or dropped from the local S-news list.

Due to the existence of these local lists, S-news-request is administrated manually. Hence subscribe and unsubscribe requests are not fulfilled instantaneously. They will be handled in a timely manner, so please be patient.

Asking questions of the mailing list.

Before you ask a question of the mailing list check with your local S expert. If you don't have any luck there, read through this FAQ. If you still don't have an answer to your question go ahead and send mail to s-news@utstat.toronto.edu. When asking questions please specify (if relevant):

  1. Whether you are using S or S-PLUS, and the version. You can find out which version you are running by typing S VERSION or Splus VERSION.
  2. The manufacturer and model of machine you are working on.
  3. The operating system (or the output of uname -a for Unix enthusiasts).
  4. Sometimes the amount of memory (real and virtual) is also relevant.

When answers are sent to you individually and not to the mailing list, it is considered good etiquette to summarize the answers and mail them to the newsgroup.

Guidelines for answering questions on the mailing list.

Try to make your answer broad enough that people other than the original poster may benefit from it. If you consider your answer to have broad interest, you may want to post it to the newsgroup instead of replying directly to the individual who asked. In this case, please make sure that your answer is not a duplication of a previous answer. Because of the manner in which the newsgroup is distributed, messages arrive in different orders at different sites, so don't assume that the message you are answering will arrive before yours. Try to summarize the essential point of the question before your reply, but don't feel obliged to quote the whole question.

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