Dear Rog,
A little late because of 2 weeks vacation:
I value the idea of summarizing at the end of discussions.
I think the initiator of a proper thread (with proper starting
question or thesis and sufficient contributors that hold on to it
to merit summarizing) "should" feel responsible for summarizing.
I propose simply marking summaries by adding "SUMM" at the
beginning of the subject line. (So a summary of the "Overdoing
the Dynamic" thread would get as subject "SUMM Overdoing the
Dynamic" and summaries would al be recognizable by "MD SUMM
...".)
It might be helpful to mark and/or describe in the introduction
(usually minor) changes in 2nd (3rd, 4th ...) summaries compared
with the 1st summary. As summaries may be longer than the average
contribution, I am otherwise tempted not to read the whole 2nd
summary (again) if I see that most is a unchanged copy of the 1st
summary.
More summaries (after continued discussion) could be marked
SUMM2, SUMM3 etc..
In my opinion summarizing discussions AND some restraint by all
contributors might make the MF-list unnecessary.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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