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