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From: cc-06@ucbcory.BERKELEY.EDU (Ilya Goldberg)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: summarizing for the net
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Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 01:19:27 EST
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In article <5680@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>Less common is for someone to post a question
>and request replies by mail only, which will be summarized. But it
>does happen. And when it does, the signal to noise ratio is very high.
>I wish more people would summarize.
>
>What this leads to is viewing the summary process as a kind of mini
>mod group with the moderator being the original requester. A very
>specific interest area is defined, and people *mail* their input.
>Then the "moderator" eliminates duplicates and posts. And I think it
>works well.
>
>Perhaps if people thought of mod groups as being analogous to summarys
>there would be less resistance and fear of censorship.

	Maybe there should be a newsgroup created just for these 'summaries'
and the person summarizing could post a message announcing the posting of
his summary to the original newsgroup.

	Sort of like net.sources but for summaries.

							Ilya
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