Re: Re: [MathGroup]: Descriptive headings
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- Subject: [mg52008] Re: [mg51975] Re: [mg51935] [MathGroup]: Descriptive headings
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:03:24 -0500 (EST)
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We can't even get meaningful subjects a lot of the time. "newbie question" is pretty typical. Ask for meaningful categories, and simple minds will be overloaded; it could be dangerous. Bobby On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 02:07:36 -0500 (EST), Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: > I am not sure whether having each time to think of a categorisation > would not cause enough trouble to discourage people from sending useful > posts that may be difficult to categorise. And, on the other hand, > have to include a number of controversial but time-honoured categories > of the kind : "New Version New Bugs", It's not a bug it's a feature, > you twit", "Yet Another Stroke of Genius!!!", "A counter-example to > Fermat's Theorem!" and so on... > And what about this one? > > Andrzej Kozlowski > Chiba, Japan > http://www.akikoz.net/~andrzej/ > http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/ > > > > > On 5 Nov 2004, at 16:17, Paul Abbott wrote: > >> [I will be commenting on this in a post shortly - moderator] >> >> Hi all, and especially Steve Christensen: >> >> At the recent Wolfram Technology Conference in Champaign, Luc Barthelet >> <lucb at ea.com>, a regular user of MathGroup suggested that it would be >> good if all postings to MathGroup included a categorisation in their >> header, e.g. >> >> Newbies, Graphics, Functions, Programming, Statistics, Teaching, >> Integration, Numerics, Symbolic Algebra, Special Functions, ... >> >> so a Subject line might take the form >> >> [Statistics]: How to fit to an elliptical function? >> >> (not sure if the [ ] are required or useful). In this way, sorting by >> Subject would be easier. Of course, it's not always easy to do such a >> categorisation, and they may change with time (as a problem stated as a >> Numerics might end up being solved using Symbolic Algebra). >> Nevertheless, I think such a change would be very useful. It should >> also >> help when doing searches on MathGroup archives. >> >> Cheers, >> Paul >> >> -- >> Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 6488 2734 >> School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 6488 1014 >> The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) >> 35 Stirling Highway >> Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au >> AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul >> >> > > > > -- DrBob at bigfoot.com www.eclecticdreams.net
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- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Re: [MathGroup]: Descriptive headings
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>
- [MathGroup]: Descriptive headings