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 _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Justine Humphry wrote:

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:01:40 +1100 From: Justine Humphry <justine.humphry@gmail.com> To: Barry Wellman <wellman@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@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:

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How else do you get the word out to multiple lists. Please be proud of yourself.

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