On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 06:51:07PM -0600, 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. 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.)
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