Re: Lectures and written communications

[John Clement <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>]

I suspect that this is a feature that is enabled in your web verson of
Outlook.  I think one can be too hard on Bill Gates, as he is giving people
many of the features they say they need.  The fact that these features are
misused or that some users do can not handle the newer formats is not really
his fault.  You are in the position of trying to loan a CD to a person who
only has an antique record player.  Both disks are round with a hole in the
middle, but there are no universal players for both.  There are universal
players for virtually all format E-mail messages.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX
> John,
>
> You may be correct.  Although, I'm not sure why our campus mailer
> did that, except that I was using our web version of Outlook.
>
> .....Bill Gates strikes again!!!
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clement [mailto:clement@HAL-PC.ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:26 PM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: Re: Lectures and written communications
>
>
> The reason for the gibberish in this message was that it contained an HTML
> version as an attachment.
> My mail program (Outlook) was able to detect and I could either
> look at the
> message as plain text or as HTML.
> Incidentally I also have the Outlook patch installed which prevents most
> viruses/worms from spreading and I have a fairly tight sandbox to isolate
> any possible bad attachments.
>
> I think the problem is that Mark's mailer is trying to transmit an HTML
> version of the message and it is not a server problem.  It is
> possible that
> Herb's server mangled the HTML or that his mail reader can not properly
> handle the HTML.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > Herb,
> >
> > This is the written equivalent of a bad voice mail response system.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
> > http://irascibleprofessor.com
> >
> >       -----Original Message-----
> >       From: Herbert H Gottlieb [mailto:herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM]
> >       Sent: Tue 5/21/2002 10:53 PM
> >       To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> >       Cc:
> >       Subject: Lectures and written communications
> >
> >
> >
> >       There has been an interesting thread on this Phys-L network
> >       concerning the efficiency of  the lecture method and other
> >       methods of teaching.  Don Simanek claims that one major
> >       problem is that students have not learned how to listen, take
> >       notes, and then respond.
> >
> >       But what happens to these students after they have been
> >       graduated from our universities and join corporate America ?
> >
> >       Below is an example of  what just happened when I wrote a
> >       short note to the Olympus Camera  and the response that
> >       I just received from one of their college graduate employees.
> >
> >       Any comments???
> >
> >       Herb Gottlieb from New York City
>
> >