RE: Distance Learning and Copyright

One thing about you spelling comment is that many people do not use modern email clients ( especially those that run in windows) because they can be remotely operated by persons unknown to the email originator, can be operated by viruses that are downloaded into ones system, and because they allow one's system to be hacked.

In my own case I use Pine, and windows functional email client from 1994 because it cannot be forced to run by downloaded scripts, or keytraced, or any of that. Maybe spelling is a functional physical limitation of the system used to generate the email.

  neight pine nor my wfec uses or has available a spell checker and sometimes I can be two or three lines ahead of the editor and because of the slowness many, spelling errors slip in.

  I had to stop in between each word in the above line to wait on the system to catch up, so that it would not drop letters or fail to make corrections. I would not be to quick if I were you about spelling on the net especially email.

  I like many many many open source people refuse to allow the silliness of being hacked supercede the spelling of the message. It would be nice, but when you write over a 56K telnet connection, in pine, it sometimes take 10 or 15 minutes to type a few paragraphs. Depends on the speed of the server, speed of the net, and many other variables.

sterling

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, It's Possible wrote:

> Dear Michael:
> I could not agree with you more as with regard to your email showing us the
> great need for grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.
> What was the name of that "correspondence school" where you studied?
> Guess it's possible anyone can miss-out on the Spell-Check session.
> Now this must be embarrassing as all can be. ouch !
> However, through reading your comments, I guess this is a form of Distance
> Learning for all of us.
>
> CattSCAN Image Publishing
> Bob Catt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org [mailto:owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael Landau
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Distance Learning and Copyright
>
>
>
> In the age of euphemisms in which the garbageman is a "sanitation engineer"
> and a sales clerk is a "customer service inventory expert" could distance
> learning be the new name for "correspondence school?"
>
> Nothing beats face to face contact, especially at a time when people spend
> very little time actually interacting with people in person and nearly all
> of their time in front of computer screens, on cell phones, and in their
> cars.
>
> The technology to allow students to take courses away from school has been
> around for a long time. Why is it that, in the past, very few institutions
> gave their students a pile of videotapes to be watched at home in place of a
> course, with instructions to call or write to the professor with querstions?
> Why, because part of the learning experience is direct communication IN
> PERSON.
>
> The distance learning movement arose at a time when the Internet was viewed
> as something that would forever change every aspect of every person's life.
>
> With the collapse of almost everything except for Amazon, eBay, and some
> informational sites, itr should now be realized that the Internet is not
> the best thing since sliced bread. It is great for some shopping. It is
> great for quickly ontaining information, but it is not a substitute for
> most activities, including university education.
>
> HAPPY NEW YEAR !
>
>
> Michael Landau
> Profesor of Law
> Georgia State University
> Atlanta, GA 30303
>
Received on Tue Jan 07 2003 - 04:56:56 GMT