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RE: st: Help for 3rd tier users of stata
Hi all,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:55 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Help for 3rd tier users of stata
>
> I agree the list could be slightly more welcoming, or at
> least kind, to new users. But subject line tags - which are
> common on many lists and may be useful here for regular users
> - are typically ignored by new users and thus probably
> wouldn't go very far.
>
> Another thing common on many lists that might be much more
> useful here is an automatic posting every week with the
> subject line [FAQ: date].
> This could contain a brief note about list expections and a
> link to the FAQ. This would be a trivial way to remind
> occasional posters of the things they should have read when
> they subscribed - but which may have been months or years
> ago. Usually anyone looking at a list archive with the
> thought of posting will read such a post first.
I rather like this idea (though a subject line of "st: FAQ [date]" would
probably work better with most people's filters).
--Mark
>
> Jeph
>
>
>
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Not being a power user of Stata, and not even being a second tier
> > user, I sympathize with the plight of those questioners who
> ask really
> > basic questions about things like statistical tests for medians. I
> > learn a lot from these questions. And, to be honest, I am
> completely
> > flummoxed by searching the archives and would not know
> enough to use
> > "median test" as my search phrase.
> >
> > If it is not good to waste the time of the power and second
> tier users
> > on such matters, could we have a separate listserv or a
> SUBJECT line
> > warning that would allow us to move along up to those levels
> > eventually through learning from each other? Or is there
> some other
> > way to build a community for us?
> >
> > Woody
> >
> > *
> > * For searches and help try:
> > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
> >
> >
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
>
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
