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Posted By: Joann

Corey,

I think posting a summary should be okay for the exact reason that it is clearly the poster's words. People would know that it is content as seen by the person posting, with whatever biases or spin or impressions that person may carry with it. So readers could decide what to make of it armed with the knowledge that it is the poster's words and version of events.

That is a lot different than posting an email that has possibly been edited according to the poster's biases and spin. In that case it is being represented as the actual words of the sender, and the reader has no reason to mentally account for the spin of the poster. That is much more deceitful to me.

Plus, if you extend the rule to cover summaries it would become impossible to find the limits. What about statements like "you told me in an email last year that you would do such and such, and now you are going back on that"?

JMO.

JMK. hee. I'm on a roll this morning.