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.