On 4 March 2010 23:47, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > On 03/05/2010 04:11 AM, Bert Gunter wrote: >> >> Folks: >> >> Rolf's (appropriate, in my view) response below seems symptomatic of an >> increasing tendency of posters to hide their identities with pseudonyms >> and >> fake headers. While some of this may be due to identity paranoia (which I >> think is overblown for this list), I suspect that a good chunk of it is >> lazy >> students trying to beat the system by having us do their homework. The >> etiquette of this list has traditionally been, like the software, open: we >> sign our names. I would urge helpeRs to adhere to this etiquette and >> ignore >> unsigned posts. >>
> 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. > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > Personally I am just paranoid. I used my normal email address for the Debian mailing lists a few years ago, then found myself deluged with spam, and bounced emails where my email had been inserted into the from field (these generally originated from Russian or Brazilian domains - if you checked the full headers). Maybe the debian lists weren't the source and it was harvested by other means, but my full email address was viewable on some of the news list archives. I have also suffered some credit card fraud which was fortunately swiftly curtailed, but it means I am inclined to keep aspects of my life out of the online domain, and use this completely separate email address for mailing lists. It also means I can dip in and out of the lists, and not clog up a work or personal email account. R is a tool that I use for part of my job - albeit an excellent tool. I am particularly happy with the graphics that I have managed to produce. -- Stephen ______________________________________________ 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.
