[R] acceptable filetypes was Re: coxph and ordinal variables?

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> Hi, everybody
>
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Min-Han Tan ><minhan.science at gmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>
>
> David said my R code text attachment got rejected by the mailing list.
>
> Pooh.   I don't think that's nice.  I don't see anything in the
> posting guide about a limit on text attachments.

  Paul: It's not in the Posting Guide but it is in the Mailing list  
information page:

"Furthermore, most binary e-mail attachments are not accepted, i.e.,  
they are removed from the posting completely. As an exception, we  
allow application/pdf, application/postscript, and image/png (and x- 
tar and gzip on R-devel). You can use text/plain as well, or simply  
paste text into your message instead. "

And as I said the filter is very dumb. <filename>.R files are  
intercepted but the very same file with the name <filename>.txt will  
be passed through intact. Now I would agree if you said those  
directions were ambiguous and even possibly misleading, but it did  
lead me to successful interactions with the mailserver in the past, so  
I decided it wasn't worth a complaint. As I understand it the amount  
of control that the list maintainers exert over the server behavior is  
pretty limited.

-- 
David.
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