[R-SIG-Finance] List etiquette

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

i)     The list works well. I would like to thank all of you for helping to keep
       the signal level up, and noise level down. 

ii)    We can do better still.  Let's (once more) follow Brian Ripley's lead
       and apply some pressure so that people actually post using their real 
       names instead of handles like hotshot at awesome.com.  We have nothing
       against GMail accounts, but we do have something against people hiding
       behind them.

iii)   As a draconian measure, I just unsubscribed the 'Michael Jungle' monkey.
       I do not like to do this, but he worked hard to deserve it. He will
       undoubtedly come back with a new handle, so let us all try to remember
       point ii) above above.

iv)    FYI, we currently have over 1900 direct subscribers, and several of
       these are other mailing list gateways for in-house lists, gmane, ...

v)     While I am on the soap box:
       
	   R / Finance 2010 registration is open, see www.RinFinance.com
	   
	   useR! 2010 early registration and abstract submission deadline is
	   _this weekend_, see www.useR2010.org

Thanks, Dirk
 



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