Welcome to <sci.math>. These suggestions may help you. [19]
- From: Ken Pledger <ken.pledger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:52:29 +1200
These notes are not official in any way, but if you are new to
this group you may find them helpful.
1. Messages posted to <sci.math> may be about mathematics at any
level. Please don't post OT (off-topic) messages about other things.
Be cautious about cross-posting (posting the same message to more
than one news group) - see section 5 below.
Some questions may do better in a more specialized news group such
as <sci.stat.math>, <sci.stat.edu>, <sci.logic> or
<sci.math.num-analysis>.
2. Your title should show what sort of mathematics is in your
message. For example, "-- Differentiating trig functions" is a good
title, but "-- Help!" is a bad title.
Also, two dashes and a space at the beginning of your title will
help some users to separate your message from commercial spam.
3. Typing mathematical formulae may not be easy.
Use ^ for powers, for example aaaa = a^4 .
You won't usually need * for multiplication, but you should use plenty
of brackets/parentheses. For example, 5e^2x could mean
(5e)^(2x) or ((5e)^2)x or 5(e^2)x or 5(e^(2x)).
Use plenty of spaces. For example, 2x + 5y = 12 is easier to read
than 2x+5y=12.
4. This news group is open to everybody, and some people have bad
manners. Try to stay polite yourself. There are still plenty of users
who want to discuss mathematics without rude arguments. I hope you
enjoy being one of them.
5. You may want more information.
To tackle the commercial spam which clutters the news group, there
are helpful ideas in Willam Elliot's message "FAQ: What to do about
spam."
Some good general advice about
news groups, cross-posting, not top-posting, etc. is Stan Brown's
"Playing Nice on Usenet" web site
<http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm>.
For mathematical news groups there are detailed FAQ at
<http://aah.ryan-usa.com/> and the older
<http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/math-faq.html>.
In particular, more details about typing formulae are at
<http://aah.ryan-usa.com/node15.html>.
Ken Pledger.
[Suggestions for shortening or clarifying these brief notes are welcome.]
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