From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!hal Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: summaries on the net Article-I.D.: cornell.3974 Posted: Mon Feb 7 13:03:58 1983 Received: Wed Feb 9 05:46:25 1983 References: watarts.1658 As one who has "posted a summary to the net", I think this discussion misses the point. First, I don't see anything wrong with including responses to a question in the summary as long as an effort is made to weed out duplicates and eliminate "please send me a copy of the summary" notes. If a response to a query is coherent and reasonably well written, I'd rather see the original note than see the editor's paraphrase of the note. But certainly it's a good idea to edit and paraphrase a response that contains useful information but is poorly written or contains much irrelevent material. (I fixed up some typos and spelling errors in the notes I used in a summary.) 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. Hal Perkins uucp: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal arpa: hal@cornell bitnet: hal@crnlcs