[R] Time for Usenet R Group?

[Marc R. Feldesman]

At 12:28 PM 3/17/2004, Ed L Cashin wrote:

I hope this response isn't indicative of the speed with which gmane posts 
messages.  I think this entire thread was more than 7 or 8 months ago, 
possibly longer.


 >"Roger D. Peng" <rpeng at stat.ucla.edu> writes:
 >
 >> Marc R. Feldesman wrote:
 >>
 >>> I agree with you on the "flood" of messages lately.  Often this
 >>> flood accompanies a new release, but this flood has continued
 >>> unabated for longer than I would have imagined.  The good news is
 >>> that R is becoming more popular and this (hopefully) attracts more
 >>> developers, which results in more libraries, etc.  The bad news is
 >>> that with more users come more questions.
 >>
 >> I don't consider that "bad news".  That's just "how it is".  As far as
 >> I can see, it's all good news :)
 >
 >I never used the mailing list directly, but always via NNTP, since
 >gmane acts as a gateway for the R mailing list.
 >
 >  www.gmane.org
 >
 >It has several anti-spam features in place already.  So if you want to
 >switch, it's very easy.  Just point your favorite news client to
 >news.gmane.org and start reading gmane.comp.lang.r.general.
 >
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Dr. Marc R. Feldesman
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