From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: summaries on the net
Article-I.D.: watarts.1662
Posted: Thu Feb 10 00:13:03 1983
Received: Thu Feb 10 00:41:51 1983
Reply-To: geo@watarts (Geo Swan)
References: watarts.1658 cornell.3974

In response to the original article entitled "Summaries to the net"
I posted a followup asking people  to exercise consideration
about posting private correspondence.  Hal Perkins at Cornell posted
a followup which said, in part:

	Second, if someone sends me a note in response to a request 
	that advertises that a summary will be posted or made available, I 
	think that it's perfectly reasonable to include that note or 
	an edited version of it in the summary. People responding to such 
	requests are obviously aware that their note might be sent 
	to others, and are perfectly free to request that it not be 
	forwarded if there is some reason for such a request.  I certainly 
	didn't get any complaints from anyone after posting a summary.  I 
	don't see any reason to go through an exchange of notes with 
	everyone who responds just to see if it's OK to use their response. 
	 
Well Hal, maybe I wasn't clear.   If someone clearly states in their
article that they mean to post a summary to the net, then one should be
prepared to be quoted.  Many people however post questions, receive 
some answers, and requests from other people to be informed of what
they learn, and \then/ they decide to post a summary of their
responses, or even worse, the verbatim responses themselves.

I received about a half dozen replies to my article from people who
had been burned the way I had.  That is, from people who had dashed
off some unguarded thoughts to someone who had posted a question
of some kind, only to find their response broadcast to the net.

Personally, I feel that common courtesy implies that you should send
an acknowledgement of some kind to everyone who replies to an article
of yours, regardless of whether you plan to ask them if you can
post their reply or not.

	Geo Swan, Integrated Studies, University of Waterloo