Once upon a time, in a land not dissimilar to this, there was a discussion
group called Radical Statistics. It was a very good discussion list. In the
morning people from all over the land would open up their e-mail boxes and
find messages. The messages would contain information about a subject called
statistics and radical people would make critical comments. Sometimes there
would be nice helpful messages answering questions and queries and messages
about conferences and meetings and interesting things in the media.
Then one day a bunch of nutters from the land of FLAME joined the list and
started sending messages that were not about statistics. Everyone found
that their mailboxes filling up with messages labeled ‘some stats’ but these
contained no stats whatsoever and everyone became rather cross.
One man, a cheekie chappie, complained by writing a fairy story. The people
from the land of FLAME however couldn’t complain because he had a fake
hotmail account.
Then one day the people from the land of FLAME stopped sending messages
labeled ‘some stats’, the ones without any stats, and started sending
helpful messages like before. And the sun of happiness shone on the mountain
top. And the staff of misery was washed away in the river. (Traditional
ending to Tibetan folk tales)
;-)
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