PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY MORE ALLSTAT-WIDE "THANK YOU" MESSAGES;

also, 
PLEASE SEND REPLIES TO POSTER OF QUERY ONLY & NOT TO ALLSTAT

and
SEMINAR NOTICE POSTERS: PLEASE TRY TO SEND ONLY ONE SEMINAR NOTICE PER TERM
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Hi,

Various messages recently have been solely "thank you" messages concerning 
responses to queries.

Sending such meassages to Allstat is not very effective as most of the list 
will not have responded to the query.

Posters of queries are welcome to send a summary (which could of course include 
a "thank you") of the responses they received to the list.  

If, for whatever reason, a member is are not going to send a summary of 
responses then they should not feel obliged to send a "thank you" to the whole 
list;  I'd be grateful if such a member, wishing to thank respondents to a query 
he or she has sent to Allstat, e-mailed the respondents directly.

I realise these messages are well intentioned, and that this request may well 
seem rather churlish and pernickety, but such messages unnecessarily increase 
the volume of traffic on what is already a list with a great deal of traffic - 
particularly as they encourage others to send such messages.
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Also, can I remind members that replies to queries sent to Allstat should be 
sent direct to the poster of the query, rather than to the list.

Recently, a few members have been sending replies to the list - please remember 
that Allstat is not a discussion list.
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Could posters of seminars please try to send only one seminar notice to Allstat 
per term?  

I realise some posters of such notices find this restrictive [perhaps 
particularly those posting noticies of non-departmental seminars], but many such 
posters do mange this and I'd be grateful if all could do this.  Please note 
that there are simply too many seminars that take place every week for them all 
to advertised (let alone re-advertised) indivdually.

Also note that giving a web site containing information about your seminar 
programme can be very useful - especially if not all the information about all 
the seminars is available at the time of posting.
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More information about guidelines for this list are given in both 
your Allstat Introduction and the FAQ.  You can obtain copies of 
these documents from the Allstat webpage
     http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/allstat/
or by sending a message containing the two lines     
     send allstat introduction
     send allstat faq
to
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Finally, if you have any queries about these or any other Allstat matters, then 
do e-mail
	[log in to unmask]
with them.

Cheers,

John

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Department of Statistics                 Phone : +44 (0)141 330 6118
University of Glasgow                    Fax   : +44 (0)141 330 4814
             
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