Re: Tips on Posting questions to the SPSS list.

Posted by Art Kendall on Sep 18, 2012; 8:56pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Tips-on-Posting-questions-to-the-SPSS-list-tp5715038p5715152.html

For top vs bottom posting, I try to follow whatever seems to be prevalent on a particular list.

When messages are threaded (on some software this is called putting them in "discussions"), my personal preference is for top posting. I have often just read the previous posting.

Without having done any checking I have the impression that most webmail and email software can display HTML.
I wonder how many people have a problem with HTML other than when dealing with the UGA archives? I think that it is unfortunate that UGA is running a 90's version of LISTSERV.  This messes up retrievals from the archives.
However, Bruce has pointed out that one can use NABBLE to see formatted returns from the archives.



if a post is getting long , it is helpful to snip out irrelevant information, e.g.,

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To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to
[hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the
command. To leave the list, send the command
SIGNOFF SPSSX-L
For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command
INFO REFCARD

On 9/12/2012 7:58 AM, Bruce Weaver wrote:

Re top- vs bottom-posting, I (almost) always bottom-post in usenet newsgroups
(e.g., the sci.stat.* groups), where that has long been the convention in
usenet.  I top-post on this list, because that *seems* to be the convention
here.  (I would guess that's because most folks read via e-mail programs
that top-post by default.)

Bruce



Albert-Jan Roskam wrote

<snip>

These are the R guidelines: http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html.
But having mentioned these, R is good example of a list where "bashing" is
quite common *). Guidelines are a means, not a goal in themselves. It's
useful to have a conscise problem description, with a self-contained
example. But esp. for novice users this is easier said than done. I agree
with the technical guidelines to avoid html messages and also, to avoid
top posting. Bottom posting makes the archive a lot easier to read.

Albert-Jan

*) This is not to say that many, if not the majority of the people on that
list are helpful.

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command. To leave the list, send the command
SIGNOFF SPSSX-L
For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command
INFO REFCARD

===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD