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I have argued in favor of more prominence of the issue in the FAQ section before, without success. Still, if you made this one more prominent, something else would slide down in importance, and problems would crop up there more frequently...
What could be done, though, is adding advice for the most frequently used mail providers and programs on how to make sure the post is text-only. It took me quite some time back in the day to figure it out in Outlook...
HTH
Martin
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von László Sándor
Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. August 2009 19:06
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: AW: egen cut(runiform()) inconsistent across versions 10 and 11?
You can send out plain text emails simply by one click, the rightmost
element on the formatting bar in GMail. However, it wasn't clear to me
after signing up or reading the FAQ that Statalist accepts only plain
text emails, and doesn't even send out error messages if you (or
GMail) tried to send it an HTML email.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Martin Weiss<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> " I just realized emails set up as the default in GMail don't make it to the Statalist. Lesson learnt. (If this is a duplicate, I am very
> sorry.)"
>
>
> This is an important piece of information about gmail accounts, as I get anywhere from 1 to 5 private emails per week complaining about lack of access to Statalist. I have read all kinds of "conspiracy theories" over the last couple of months as to why posts do not make it to the list. But the default setting in the most popular email provider on the list makes for a compelling answer...
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von László Sándor
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. August 2009 18:19
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: egen cut(runiform()) inconsistent across versions 10 and 11?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I tried to discuss with you this little 'bug' (or feature) yesterday,
> I just realized emails set up as the default in GMail don't make it to
> the Statalist. Lesson learnt. (If this is a duplicate, I am very
> sorry.)
>
> I used the command -egen treat = cut(runiform()), group(2)- with
> success on a copy of Stata 10 locally, with executables and ado files
> updated to last week's builds. When I give the same command to Stata
> 11 on a UNIX cluster, it reports the error "invalid, variable name
> expected". This is the case even if I add "version 10:" to the command
> (-version 10: egen treat = cut(runiform()), group(2)-).
>
> Why is this the case? I didn't find the change documented. And
> shouldn't -version- solve this in any case?
>
> (Of course, I can work around this, but still, what's wrong with
> efficient and elegant code? And why only recently?)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Laszlo
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