I do not see how it can be illegal to download and duplicate the posts, since all the content is licensed under CC BY-SA. I might have missed something there: http://stackexchange.com/legal If that is really the case, I think I will have to reconsider if I should use it any more.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13-11-24 2:04 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: >> >> I'm not aware of a discussion on this, but I would say no. >> Fragmentation is bad. Further fragmentation is worse. >> >> TL;DR >> ===== >> >> Actually I'd say all mailing lists except r-devel should be moving to >> StackOverlow in the future (disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with it). > > > I would generally agree with you, except for a few points. > > 1. I avoid StackOverflow, because they claim copyright on the compilation. > As I read their terms of service, it would be illegal for anyone to download > and duplicate all postings about R. So a posting there is only available as > long as they choose to make it available. Postings to the mailing list are > archived in several places. > > 2. I think an interface like StackOverflow is better than the mailing list > interface, and will eventually win out. R-help needs to do nothing, once > someone puts together something like StackOverflow that attracts most of the > people who give good answers, R-help will just fade away. > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
