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Subject:Re: Side issues From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 22 Jun 1993 10:45:21 PDT
Vicki Rosenzweig said:
> It might be worth doing what the Sun-managers list does: the
> etiquette there is that answers to questions (or, in our case,
> technical questions) go to the asker, who then posts a summary
> to the entire list.
I'd rather have lots of short messages on a topic than a long summary
to read. I am on other lists that follow this procedure, and I lose
interest by the third screen. Also, you have to keep the whole file
instead of just the relevant portions.
