Email Rules!
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From: Ken Monks [monks@epix.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: email rules!
Yes, email DOES rule!! Yah email! Gotta
love it.
In addition, I have to specify a few email
rules.
1. You MUST send me your questions in PLAIN
TEXT FORMAT. If you use an email client program that supports html formatted
email you should configure it so it sends all email to me using plain text
format only. The reason for this is that not all students have email clients
that can read html formatted email, proportional fonts are more difficult to
type mathematics in than a fixed width font, and finally my email client won't
put the nice > in front of each line in a reply if I convert the reply to
plain text, so it makes it impossible for the students to distinguish what is
being asked from what is being answered. So after today, I will simply return
any email that is not in plain text format to the sender (nicely, with a smile
though :) ).
2. You should be sure to configure your
email client (if you can) to use fixed width fonts like Courier or Courier New
when displaying your email messages. This is because when we type mathematics in
email it is often necessary to line things up in columns and there is no way to
do that with a proportional font.
3. If you send an email question that asks
about a particular problem, please put the problem number and PAGE number for
the problem you are asking about in the subject line of the message. (If you are
asking about a problem that is not in the book, then refer to it in the subject
line in some obvious manner). Please don't identify your modern questions
in the subject line by "Assignment n, #x" because it is hard for the
FAQ reader to know which Assignment number a particular problem belongs to,
since the assignment numbers are not always the same from year to year, and even
if they are the user has to first look up the assignment to see what page the
problem is on. Instead use "Section n, #x, page pp" to identify the
section and page in the book where the problem is found.
This will make all of our email lives much
easier during the term. THANKS!!!
--Ruler Monks
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