On 28 Apr 2001 22:26:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill)
wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I just joined the listserv. Our professor is giving us extra credit if
>> we join an email list re: stats. I was able to pull up one of his
>> messages from last year. Pretty cool. Have a great day!
>
>You might ask him whether additional extra credit is awarded if you also
>learn about the usual rules of conduct, sometimes called "netiquette".
>One of them is that persons posting to the listserv are expected to
>include their proper names at least, preferably accompanied by their
>affiliations (e.g., college or place of employment or home address, or
>combinations of these). You might start by visiting the web site
>mentioned in the trailer automatically appended to this message by
>edstat.
> Your e-mail program almost certainly has the facility to include
>a signature file (sometimes called a .sig) automatically; and even if
>you think you have valid reason(s) for not doing that as a routine
>courtesy for all your e-mail, you can easily import such a file into
>your message for polite communication with listservs and other
>correspondents, and ought to do so.
> -- DFB.
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> Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 348 Hyde Hall, Plymouth State College, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> MSC #29, Plymouth, NH 03264 603-535-2597
> 184 Nashua Road, Bedford, NH 03110 603-472-3742
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Why stifle this student's enthusiam and discovery with a sort of mean
spirited response? I can think of many valid reasons not to list
one's home address as you suggest.
J. Williams
Merritt Island, FL
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