Re: Mailing List

[Gerald Ebberink]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 17:05, Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:
> Gerald Ebberink wrote:
> > The only problem you now have (atleast here) is that 2 e-mails with the
> > same content get in my mailbox in with no time difference directed to 2
> > seperate users (may be more I don't know how many of my co-workers are
> > subscribed), ergo I don't find them in my mailbox but in my spam-box.
> > with the other octave mailinglist messages this is not a problem, only
> > the ones directed to me.
> > 
> > kind regards
> > 
> 
> 
> No offence, but I think that comes under the "braindead mailer" category 
> discussed in John's link. The correct solution is to fix your spam 
> filtering rules rather than change the list behaviour for everyone.

I know, and in my home e-mail system I have no problem, but here I
should file a report to the IT group which would take it up with central
IT which might get back to me to ask me what the problem is etc. etc.
etc. So I'll think I'll keep checking my spam-email for now.

> With regard to the original query, it is possible to perform some 
> symbolic manipulation with Octave using interfaces to computer algebra 
> systems. There is a description of the available methods on the wiki:
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CategorySymbolic

This looks interesting, I've been using octave and maxima next to each
other.. I'll take a look at it. 

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Ing. Gerald Ebberink
Research Technician

Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Zernikelaan 25
9747 AA Groningen
The Netherlands
tel: +31 50 363 3518
lab: +31 50 363 3588
fax: +31 50 363 4003



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