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You may have not been long enough on this list to see that some of the old-time gurus have reached a demigod like status. Demigods have all rights to be 'rude' (that's almost a definition of a demi-deity).
-- Jari Oksanen (in a discussion on whether answers on R-help should be more polite)
R-help (December 2004) #Rstats