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Subject:Summarizing From:"Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> To:TechWr-L <TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 25 Mar 2000 02:00:04 +0200
John writes:
If the question is worth "tie"ing up the list, then
the answers are also.
** But surely a lot depends on the question. For example,
few of us enjoy on-list answers to survey questions like
"How many on the list are using Visio?"
Then there are requests for simple factual information,
like "Where can I find a simultaneous translator near
Akron?" Answers there tend to repetitiveness, no point
reading more than a summary of them.
Questions warranting discussion are another matter,
of course. For those, I sometimes wish that individual
messages had summaries...
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Mark L. Levinson - nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il - Herzlia, Israel
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Only half of life is quantifiable.
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