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? Oh, I'm right there with you. I don't agree with what she did. If she was having that much trouble, she should have been a little more pro-active than to send an email, but it happened, so there it is. A
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