On Mon, 13 May 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote: > I propose that when providing links to stories, yes! Please try and > provide some background as to what the story is about. I'm sure I'm > not the only one on the list who gets hundreds of e-mails a day, many > of which consist of things like: <snip>
> I'm curious if others agree with this... It might be helpful to the > list to know how people feel about it. Maybe most people really don't > want a hint about the story's topic. My suspicion is otherwise > though... While on the whole I tend to agree with you, and find it useful when there's something - however small it is. Be that as it may, there are times when the person sending the link would do it no justice. Besides that, there are times when the person sending a link simply doesn't have the time or desire to summarize. Each person and each link will be a seperate case, with seperate influencing factors that make the person make the decision to either summarize at length, copy the whole story, simply provide a subject line or provide nothing at all. I find it pretty presumptious of you to assume people should provide you with the summary.. You have your own criteria that decides whether you read it or not, why should someone sending a link to a list feel like they have to provide a summary for you to read it? In my case, if someone reads it and finds it interested, great! If not, so be it... it really has little impact on my day. Ben -- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
