From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxi!otto
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: A USENET/English Question
Article-I.D.: ihuxi.145
Posted: Sat May 29 16:04:28 1982
Received: Sun May 30 02:41:02 1982


I have a question to ask people on the net who have used quotations from
USENET in their papers: What is the proper way to reference such quotes?
A complete reference in the manner of a typical book or journal article
seems wrong, since readers of my paper would not be able to track the
USENET article down in the same way as a book or journal article could
be.  On the other hand, listing the quotation as coming from a "personal
communication" seems wrong also, since a USENET article is scarcely the
same thing as a note directed just to me from its author.

I would appreciate hearing other people's solutions to this problem.
Please send responses to me via mail (personal communication), and I
will summarize the results for later USENET publication.

George Otto
Bell Labs, Indian Hill
ihnss!ihuxi!otto
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P.S.: Should this have been submitted to net.lang.english ???