[Rcpp-devel] OT: notes on this list

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 November 2011 at 23:08, Paul Menzel wrote:
| Dear Rcpp folks,
| 
| 
| if you are interested here are my observations regarding this list.
| 
| 1. Reading the information page [1] I sent a message to
| 
|     <rcpp-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org>
| 
| before being subscribed and I did not get any information back. So
| adding a note that a subscription is required for posting and all other
| messages are discarded would be helpful.

Done.

You could have discussed with the list-admin (yours truly) off-list rather
than spamming everybody...
 
| 2. I am a little confused that the domain seems to be altered from
| <@lists.r-forge.r-project.org> to <r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at>. Which one is
| the official one? [1] lists the former one.

Same thing. There are DNS tools that can help you see through this.  At a
minimum even ping helps, see below.

Dirk
 

edd at max:~$ ping -c 2 lists.r-forge.r-project.org
PING r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.38) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.38): icmp_req=1 ttl=44 time=127 ms
64 bytes from r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.38): icmp_req=2 ttl=44 time=126 ms

--- r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 126.251/126.995/127.739/0.744 ms
edd at max:~$ ping -c 2 r-forge.r-project.org
PING r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.38) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.38): icmp_req=1 ttl=44 time=125 ms
64 bytes from r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at (137.208.57.38): icmp_req=2 ttl=44 time=127 ms

--- r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 125.343/126.355/127.367/1.012 ms
edd at max:~$ 


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