[R] Trailing on r-help messages

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 22:31:13 CEST 2006


On 7/16/06, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> > They might read it when reading other people's messages since
> > it would be at the bottom of every single one.
>
> Perhaps, it might also trigger "same"-blindness: seeing the same thing
> again and again makes it less and less likely to really percieve it.
>
> Hadley
>

I think that is likely true but it would at least mean that they had
seen it repeatedly and there would really be no excuse for not following it
(unlike the current situation where one needs to take action to follow
the posting guide link and then read a lengthy page).



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