Chuck as usual very graciously intonates:
> Oh, heck. this stuff is old hat. it's just new that they're doing it
> at listservers. There are teachers who assign coursework without
> worrying about the impact on others ...
>
> Yes, the instructor ought to be more proactive about stuff like this,
> but most likely, tey're already doing 60-70 hour weeks, and I can
> understand if they don't necessarily agree with me on it.
>
> By the way, if she's at cc.ca.us that's a Community College campus,
> aka a junior college or 2 year school. ... But most
> people teach there because they haven't gotten the degrees or the
> ability to teach at a higher level....
Well, yes, I knew this stuff already. :-P It's just I know the
people on this list are clever enough to figure all this stuff out
that I don't have to spell it out for them. :-)
Although I disagree with you about it's new about mailing lists
and MLM's. I've been seeing this sort of stuff for years from
Introduction to the Internet 101, Lesson 4 - Exercise 2: Go to this
ftp/web site that has a lot of mailing lists referenced, find a
random list, s*bscr*be, uns*bscr*be, then provide a printout with
evidence of your doing so, etc, etc.
But my point was (I should have made it better) is that this teacher
thinks it's okay because no one has complained to her about it!
So maybe if she got a few list owners explaining that it's not a
very swift practice and why, she might see the light. I tend to
sound confrontational even when I'm not trying to be, so I always
think there's someone out there who can do say more eloquently than
I can.
