[Air-L] Why do people apologize for cross-posting?

[Barry Wellman]

Justine,

My guess is that it is something to do with English culture, in which 
people even apologize for posting abstracts of their articles.

But it is research that I will never do.
  Barry Wellman
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Justine Humphry wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:01:40 +1100
> From: Justine Humphry <justine.humphry at gmail.com>
> To: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Why do people apologize for cross-posting?
> 
> Hi,
>
> I've always wondering this myself - especially considering that the act of
> sending an email apologising about sending an email could potentially be
> received as spam, or at the least more annoying than receiving the
> cross-posted information without qualifications, which, as you say,
> recipients might recognise as an effort to get the information out as
> widely as possible.
>
> I'm sure there's at least one article in that don't you think?
>
> Justine
>
> Digital Cultures Lecturer,  Digital Cultures Program
> University of Sydney
>
> On 11 December 2012 10:25, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>> How else do you get the word out to multiple lists.
>> Please be proud of yourself.
>>
>>
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>> +1-416-978-3963
>>   NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
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