On Apr 5, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I have seen direct evidence of the problem inherent in reply-to
munging. We had a student reply to an email thinking she was replying
only to the instructor and instead sent her tearful sounding pleas to
the entire class list. Not cool. Much better to err on the side of
sending mail to fewer people than the opposite.
Call me a masochist if you like, but I think stuff like that IS cool.
It also shows very dramatically the inherent problems with using e-
mail for human communication.
If she really was that distressed, why wasn't she in his office for
office hours IMMEDIATELY?
So much for human interaction. You can now beg and plead for
important things in life from your iPhone while drinking a coffee at
Starbucks. (I assume she was begging about a grade or needing help
with the course material, or something similar if she was a student.)
Progress? Not really. Maybe next year she can at least call him via
a videoconference! LOL!
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Nate Duehr
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