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Old 02-07-2005, 07:00 PM
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I had a professor like this. He told us a story one day in lecture, about how he'd set up his email account when he started teaching there, but never touched it again. One day he had to send an email for some reason, so he had to get the department secretary to help him get into his email. (This included her calling I/S to get his password reset because he'd long since forgotten it.) Once he got into his account, he found several hundred emails from students, going back for YEARS. Most of them read, "May I have an extension on the term paper due tomorrow?"

The moral of the story was that if you needed to get hold of him, pick up the phone or visit during office hours.

Sooooo irritating.
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