AW: [R] Newsgroup - another try?
Pesl Thomas wrote:
| I can think of two disadvantages of a newsgroup | | 1) Access | Everyone with an email address can sub_scribe to the R mailing lists. | However, not everyone has a news feed. I don't. Everyone who has access to the internet can also have a news-account. There
Last I tried to find one (long time ago) it was or to slow or only with access for a certain geographical area. I dont know of any news-feed located in latin America. Kjetil Halvorsen.
are a lot of good free news-servers (most of the time hosted by universities), and on the client-site you can often use your mail-program (e.g. OE) if you do not want to buy a program. | 2) Control | Moving to a news group means giving up control over the list. | For example, Martin Maechler has put excellent spam filters in place | and we certainly wouldn't have those any more. AFAIK newsgroups can be moderated, too. That should mean, that it is possible to apply the same filters. I am subscribed to different newsgroups and none of these have any problem with spam. By the way: At this point I have not recieved my own question. Thomas -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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