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From: rmm@uunet!unhd (Raphael Malyankar)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Posting questions to newsgroup you refuse to read - poor etiquette?
Summary: this one's about summarizing e-mail
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.000623.6438@uunet!unhd>
Date: 28 Nov 89 00:06:23 GMT
References: <1989Nov23.145213.3468@algor2.algorists.com>
Reply-To: rmm@unhd.UUCP (Raphael Malyankar)
Organization: University of New Hampshire
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jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:

>I believe that summarizations kill potentially useful discussion.  The
>back and forth which is one of the major benefits of the net over,
>say, magazines is eliminated.

and

>The summarizer is the person who is likely to have the poorest
>understanding of the issue (unless he asked a question he knows the
>answer to).  If he simply reposts all that he received in the

I suppose this depends. If you are asking for information like, say,
books or articles on some topic, surely it's better to avoid
the inevitable multiple postings mentioning the same book?
And hopefully you will learn enough from the mail you get to post an
intelligent summary...

[You've got a point, but I don't think it holds all the time.]

>Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.

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Raphael Malyankar    rmm@unhd.unh.edu          uunet!unhd!rmm