Re: Welcome to <sci.math>. These suggestions may help you. [36]
- From: Jonathan Groves <JGroves@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:24:39 EDT
Ken Pledger wrote:
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 6 below.
Some questions may have better luck in a more
specialized news group
such as <sci.stat.math>, <sci.logic> or
<sci.math.num-analysis>.
2. Your subject heading should show what sort of
mathematics is in
your message. For example, "Differentiating trig
functions" is a good
subject, but "Help!" is a bad subject.
3. Include the text of your question in your
message itself, even if
you also refer to a Web page for a good diagram.
4. Type mathematical formulae in the ordinary
ASCII characters on
your keyboard.
Use ^ for powers, for example aaaa = a^4 .
You'll rarely need * for multiplication, but use
plenty of
brackets/parentheses. For example, e^2x/5 could
mean
(e^2)x/5 or (e^(2x))/5 or e^(2x/5).
Use plenty of spaces. For example, 2x + 5y = 12
is easier to read
than 2x+5y=12.
5. This news group is open to everybody, and some
people have bad
manners. Try to stay polite yourself. There are
plenty of users who
want to discuss mathematics without rude arguments.
I hope you
enjoy being one of them.
6. You may want more information.
If you are struggling with Google Groups, some
better news servers
(with less spam) and other helpful ideas are in
William Elliot's message
<http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/2ac5e052b
3919868>.
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-fa
q.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 notes
are welcome.]
Actually, Stan Brown does recommend cross-posting if your message
fits nicely into more than one newsgroup. However, he recommends
not multiposting (posting the same message separately to different
newsgroups) since the replies to the message from different
newsgroups show up only in those respective newsgroups; however, with
cross-posting, replies from different newsgroups show up in one
place. Futhermore, with cross-posting, any person can see all the
replies to that message, regardless of the newsgroups they came from.
With multiposting, the only replies a particular person can see are
replies from within that one particular newsgroup.
However, I use Math Forum offered by Drexel University for these
newsgroups, and I don't think it offers a way to cross post.
Stan Brown's directions for cross-posting don't seem to apply here.
Am I correct? Or am I wrong? If I am wrong, then I would like to
know how to cross-post using Math Forum in case I decide to do that
someday.
Jonathan Groves
.
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