From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: summaries on the net Article-I.D.: watarts.1658 Posted: Sun Feb 6 13:00:58 1983 Received: Sun Feb 6 23:48:32 1983 Reply-To: geo@watarts (Geo Swan) References: ihuxb.213 Ed Pawlak, who posted the original article to which this is a followup, observes that many people who ask a question don't summarize, but merely post a concatenation of the responses they receive. He asked people not to do this, but rather to condense for the rest of us, otherwise it defeats the purpose of not just posting followups. I would like to add, I think that it is a little rude to post mail you have received privately to the net public. Personally, I think that you should ask people's permission before you post anything they have written you to the net. People might say things by mail, that they would not like to have generally posted. Or they might have wished to have taken greater care to be coherent, if they knew they were writing for an audience of 8,000 rather than 1.