Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucbcory!cc-06 From: cc-06@ucbcory.BERKELEY.EDU (Ilya Goldberg) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: summarizing for the net Message-ID: <10883@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 01:19:27 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10883 Posted: Sun Nov 3 01:19:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 01:33:59 EST References: <5680@amdcad.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: cc-06@ucbcory.BERKELEY.EDU (Ilya Goldberg) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Keywords: summarys moderation 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 ...!ucbvax!ilya ilya@ucb-vax.BERKELEY.EDU