Dan O'Donovan wrote: > Nilanjan Palit <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/code-for-america-an-elegant-solution-for-government-it-problems/2011/12/16/gIQAXrIu2O_story.html >> > > This is a good story? This is a bad story? You agree with this? You > don't agree? This story is worth us spending time to read, but not > you to comment on?
In my opinion (not BLU list policy), as a matter of mailing list etiquette, I don't think it is necessary for the OP citing a link to provide commentary on it, but I do think all links necessitate some form of summary, be it a self-explanatory title, quote from the article, or hand written summary. Remember that your posting will live on the archives probably long after the link has ceased to operate. Not to mention if you want to motivate someone to follow the link, it generally helps to provide some sort of a teaser. (My personal policy is that I rarely follow links posted without explanation. Along the lines of what Dan said: if you can't be bothered to summarize, then I can't be bothered to click on it.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
