Re: st: Using the word "From" at the beginning of the sentence [was:Modelling two binary outcomes that are not mutually exclusive by MurrayFinkelstein]

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

From....

I wish I knew what you guys are talking about.  There is no such thing as a
Statalist parser, nor is it hosted by Stata Corp. Statalist is hosted 
here at
the School of Public Health; always has been.

As far as I can tell, Majordomo, the software package that runs the list,
randomly decides to chop off first lines.  We have not been able to figure
out a pattern

m.p.


Richard Williams wrote:


> At 02:11 PM 11/27/2004 -0500, Renzo Comolli wrote:
>
> > Dear Dr. Murray Finkelstein,
> >
> > In response to your message
> > http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-11/msg00813.html
> >
> > You can't use the word "From" at the beginning of any sentence 
> > otherwise the
> > Statalist parser hosted by StataCorp will cut the message at that point,
> > split your message in two, delete that line and post two separate 
> > messages.
> > I surmise that given that you used the word "From" in the very first
> > sentence, the parser discarded one of the two pieces as empty.
>
> Why in the world does it do that?  Rather than add this info to the 
> FAQ - could the Statalist parser be changed???
>
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