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Re: Lectures and written communications

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