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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: referencing material off the net. - (nf)
Message-ID: <120@cubsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 13:33:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 13:33:27 1983
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"Articles" in the net are not so much articles as informal comments...
the appropriate way to reference such things, at least in the scien-
tific literature, is:  "So-and-so, Personal Communication, date."
The person being quoted should, as a courtesy, be sent a copy of the 
citing document.  Incidentally, this would be easier if people would
put their real names down at the bottom of the article;  affiliation
and location would help, too.

Peter S. Shenkin
Columbia University Dept. of Biol. Sci., New York

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