[R] request

[stephen sefick]

I apologize, my naive understanding that if an email was sent to the
list then the sender is subscribed.  However, my hypothesis is
falseifiable.

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> "ss" == stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:40:50 -0400 writes:
>
>    ss> you are subscribed to the r-help list.
>
> Huh???  How would  *you* know that?
>
> The list of subscribers to R-help is not at all public,
> and the fact that Ram Kumar's posting went through may well be
> the result of the fact that we have a kind group of R-help
> moderators who spend a fraction of their valuable time to let
> people occasionally post even if unsubscribed.
> Search for "volunteer" on
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>
> {please, Ram, also do read the above web page carefully ..}
>
> Regards,
> Martin Maechler,
> ETH Zurich (provider of all the @r-project.org mailing lists)
>
>
>    ss> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Ram Kumar Basnet <rk.basnet at yahoo.com> wrote:
>    >> hi
>    >> I am expecting the mails that will flow in R- help after subscribing this but could not. Can you provide me the right form.
>    >> Thanks.
>    >>
>    >>
>    >>
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>    >>
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>    >>
>
>
>
>    ss> --
>    ss> Stephen Sefick
>    ss> Research Scientist
>    ss> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>
>    ss> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
>    ss> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
>    ss> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
>    ss> annoying little problems of being mammals.
>
>    ss> -K. Mullis
>
>    ss> ______________________________________________
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>    ss> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>    ss> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>



-- 
Stephen Sefick
Research Scientist
Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

	-K. Mullis