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Subject: Re: Summarizing
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Ray Chen complains that there is not enough summarizing done in this newsgroup.
Furthermore he claims that the people who don't summarize should not be
replying, for they don't know what they are reading.

Sorry, but there is too much straw man building and beating going on as it is.
Sometimes I find that not only do I have to include parts of the letter I am
replying to, but I also need to reproduce parts of previous articles (ussually
points that were not addressed).  The propogation delay of the net requires
some sort of summary and people have a hard enough time reproducting what was
said in an unbiased conversation, much less adequately representing a fellow
netters statement or opinion when it does not conform to one's political
philosophy.

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