On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote:
> I had a working hypothesis about this, but decided to check the data before > replying. Looking at the ten most recent obvious pseudonyms, all were from > free email accounts like gmail or yahoo. A few of these included all or part > of the name of the user anyway. As such accounts tend to be used for lots of > things, the users may well be concerned about identification, even if > everyone on the R help list is of the highest moral standing. I think Rolf's > guess about the provenance of the request was based upon the carefully > copied format, which Blind Freddie could see was homework (and the requester > actually admitted it!). Personally, I never answer requests that have the > due date for the assignment at the bottom. Why not? You don't have to give the *right* answer, and there's a good chance the poster will just copy and paste your answer as theirs... Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ______________________________________________ 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.
