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From: Geoff Bull <gbull@acenet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Kindness
Date: 1999/09/06
Date: 1999-09-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37D279EA.E7679A70@acenet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7qood6$h3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com



Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au>,
>   Geoff Bull <gbull@acenet.com.au> wrote:
> > I think you're all being a bit precious.
> > Getting some help via the net is just another part of
> > the educational experience.
> 
> Getting help is one thing, asking the net to do your homework
> or copying your homework from the net is quite another 

Yes, I agree with this. And I'm quite removed from undergraduate
situation, so I would really have no idea what goes on in
universities these days. 


> 
> Anyone who thinks that concern over students cheating and not
> doing the work they need to do learn is "precious" is missing
> a pretty important point!
> 

An important point for me is that rudeness is NEVER acceptable.
(even though I can hand a good deal of it myself, inadvertantly
and advertantly!)

It is very easy not to answer a homework (or any other) question.
Why do people feel the necessity to be rude?
A rude response certainly diminishes my opinion of the sender,
no matter what the question.

Geoff




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-31  0:00 Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-02  0:00 ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03  0:00   ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03  0:00     ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-05  0:00       ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07  0:00         ` Kindness Andy Askey
1999-09-07  0:00           ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-02  0:00 ` Kindness Jerry Petrey
1999-09-02  0:00   ` Kindness Nick Roberts
1999-09-02  0:00 ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03  0:00   ` Kindness Geoff Bull
1999-09-03  0:00     ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-03  0:00       ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03  0:00         ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-06  0:00           ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-06  0:00             ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-07  0:00             ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-07  0:00               ` Kindness Bill Findlay
1999-09-03  0:00         ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-04  0:00           ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-06  0:00       ` Geoff Bull [this message]
1999-09-05  0:00         ` Kindness Aidan Skinner
1999-09-03  0:00     ` Kindness Marin David Condic
1999-09-03  0:00       ` Kindness Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-03  0:00         ` Kindness Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-04  0:00           ` Eight Queens problem (was Re: Kindness) Daryle Walker
1999-09-05  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-06  0:00             ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-06  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-07  0:00                 ` bourguet
1999-09-08  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08  0:00                     ` bourguet
1999-09-08  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08  0:00                         ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-03  0:00         ` Kindness tmoran
1999-09-03  0:00           ` Kindness Marin David Condic
     [not found]         ` <37D55622.69B27515@rational.com>
1999-09-07  0:00           ` Homework (was Re: Kindness) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-08  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-08  0:00           ` Homework Mark Lundquist
1999-09-03  0:00 ` Kindness Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09  0:00   ` Kindness James William Zuercher
1999-09-10  0:00     ` Kindness Robert Dewar
1999-09-10  0:00     ` Kindness Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10  0:00       ` Kindness Robert Dewar
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