On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:12:36 -0400, "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV> said: > Wow! :-o > or > Whoa! %-Q > > In my view sas comm wiki is the posted results > of the R&D of the peers of the SAS programmer's world. > > What's the fuss? > > Surely we remember whatever happened to any site that had the three > letters > -- can be spelled backwards or forwards! -- > sas > in its name.

For those who are new to SAS-L, a few years ago SAS Institute told the owners of several web sites whose names included "SAS" that they had to change their site names, or some kind of badness would happen. The two sites that I remember were SASHelp.com (run by SAS-L contributor David Ward) and SASConsig.com (run by SAS-L contributor Charles Patridge, now under the name www.sconsig.com).

For people who know this history, the presence of "sas" in a site name is a giveaway that SAS Institute is involved. But not everyone would know that.

> sas[note: lowercase]Community.org is certainly very definitely connected > to the publisher of Statistical Analysis Software > near and dear to the [bi]weekly deposit into our bank accounts. > > Pruning Happens! > > http://www.floriantools.com/

I saw one of these at the state fair last year; they were pretty cool, actually. They were in the section that included the home workshop all-in-one lathe/drill machine, something I'd love to have if I had room for it (and if I didn't think it would eat my fingers).

-- Jack Hamilton Sacramento, California jfh@alumni.stanford.org <== Use this, not jfh@stanfordalumni.org