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From: smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: referencing material off the net. - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 21:44:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  7 21:44:51 1983
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Sure, a standard refernce format can be chosen (or at least one
could come close).  has anyone thought of the consequences?
I, for one, would like to keep any flames I have off someone's
paper.  I would feel less free in my opinions if I knew it would
haunt me later in some publication.  Do people really WANT their
articles referenced?  I can see from net.unix-wizards, perhaps, but
from net.jokes and net.flame also?  Dare I bring up the BLKTRAN
problem.  From the resulting discussion, having the person haunted
with that article later on could hurt his/her career.
Granted, that would be extreme, but let's take a hard look on the
precedent just taken.  I like to sit back and wait for someone to
air views like mine, but none came so far!

Great!  I'll be overruled and this will appear on the cover of TIME.
(Hi Ma)    <--   She reads TIME mag.
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	--steve kramer
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