on reviewing papers

What do you do when there's a citation to a paper you haven't read? 
Should the citing paper gloss the cited paper so that it's not critical 
to follow the link? I suppose each community has its own assumed shared 
context. I think I just don't spend enough time in any of the academic 
communities to know.

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Dan Connolly, research scientist, MIT CSAIL
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Received on Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:36:00 UTC