inappropriate posting (".. vacation ..")

Huuh ???

"Partha" ==   <partha at kent.edu>
    on Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:44:41 -0500 writes:

Partha> Sir: Is it possible to stop sending me email till
    Partha> January 12,2005.  I will be away from my workplace.
    Partha> Partha

What did you think when sending this to the 2500 readers of
R-help?

Can you think what would happen if everyone told R-help
(i.e. everyone else) about their vacations ????

PLEASE!

BTW, even if you only had wanted to send this to the list
maintainer, it would not have been appropriate:  This is a
volunteer job, and relies on subscribers taking care of these
things themselves: Namely, by reading {the posting guide,
mailing list pages,...} on your own.

Now that this has cost too much time anyway, I'm putting this to
general consideration.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
R mailing lists' maintainer