Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site linus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!smk From: smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: referencing material off the net. - (nf) Message-ID: <522@linus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 14:54:08 EST Article-I.D.: linus.522 Posted: Sat Dec 10 14:54:08 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Dec-83 01:06:55 EST References: <173@whuxle.UUCP>, <1003@mit-eddie.UUCP> <715@cbosgd.UUCP>, <513@linus.UUCP> <286@flairvax.UUCP> Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford MA Lines: 15 Kevin wins the award for 1st person to take me up on my backwards suggestion and quote my article! What i was really getting at was 3 things: one some groups foster discussions that should be free from quotes, misquoting could be a problem, and I could get in trouble for something posted by someone pretending to be me. However, I agree if it will stop some of the noise, then quoting has its merits. (You may quote me on this.) Maybe we need a net.quote.general, net.quote.unix-wizards, ... (only kidding) -- --steve kramer {allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!smk (UUCP) linus!smk@mitre-bedford (MIL)