-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/08 19:51, Nate Duehr wrote: > > 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.
And for proof-reading your work before you send it out... > 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! Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my cane and ear horn. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH+CGES9HxQb37XmcRAn3rAKCiuyqiG/hC7muJO52cePOO/ebODwCfffIQ VfMeigAJaqnWiM9LvwtpnuM= =7pAP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
