On Tuesday, Sept 27 1994, Pat Miller wrote:
Just to introduce another element in this discussion, I've
been thinking about forwarded messages.  Sometimes a person
responds to another colleague instead of to the whole list.
Others may have asked to have messages on a topice of interest
to them forwarded.  The responder to the original query, however,
may not intend for his or her private message to be sent futher.
Perhaps one should indicate this in a message if that is the
case, but I think it probably just doesn't occur to the poster.
So, to get back to citations, how do you cite forwarded messages?
 
On Mon, 26 Sep 1994, Museum Informatics Project wrote:
 
> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
> Eric Siegel  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >          Yikes! Lord knows that I would not want the musings that I
> >          put up here cited without a chance to clean them up. Many
> >          times I'll write something speculatively that I would never
> >          write in a published form.
>
> Hmmm. You've got a readership of over 1000, probably mostly
> professional, museum people here on MUSEUM-L.  I'd say that you should
> consider cleaning up your stuff, if you feel that is necessary, at the
> first writing, because I doubt that you will be given much chance to
> clean it up later (e.g., often, what you say at a particular moment is
> followed up by responses/retorts/questions by others; a cleaned-up
> version of your stimulus to these comments won't do if someone wants to
> "publish" that thread of commentary [the context is necessary]).
> Obviously, you can alway offer corrections, amendments, retractions,
> etc., but your original postings are probably going to "live" longer,
> more visible, lives than you might wish.
>
> The above comments ignore the issue of distinguishing the meaning of
> "published form" vs "posted to MUSEUM-L" vs "cited" vs "referred to
> unabmiguously", etc., all topics about which much has been and is being
> discussed in many other fora, standards working groups, etc. trying to
> come to grips with electronic documents.
> Peter Rauch
>
 
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