[R] test

[Esmail Bonakdarian]

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> On May 13, 2008, at 5:52 AM, Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:
> 
>> Tony Plate wrote:
>>> You probably should check this section in your R-help subscription 
>>> options (via https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/options/r-help/, I think):
>>>> Receive your own posts to the list?
>>>
>>
>> Tony,
>>
>> Like jt I too have it set to receive my own messages, but I too
>> don't see them. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that both
>> of us use gmail to post to the list?
> 
> Bingo! Well, I don't know if this happens with the web interface to 
> gmail, but if you use POP to access your gmail account, then any emails 
> you send to any kind of list will not get back to you 

Yup, I use Thunderbird to read/process my gmail :-)

> (Problem being, 
> sort of, that gmail groups things in "Conversations", and in this case 
> will remember the email you sent out and use that copy in the 
> conversation, instead of the one sent through the list. 

Except that part of the conversation sits in my "sent" folder rather
than being nicely threaded into the conversation.

> Not a very good 
> excuse in my opinion, and a particularly irritating "feature".).

agreed!

> In the rare occasions  where my waiting powers get exhausted before 
> someone on this very helpful list replies to my email, I just use the 
> online archives to check whether my email was sent or not.

Yes, I did that initially when I wasn't sure if my message was getting
out. Often thought I don't have to do this because the helpful folks on
this list have already replied to my posting.

Best,
Esmail