Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >Quality control? > >[snip] > I could document >that because the scores for both exams were still posted. > - The result of my complaint was that the scores for the 1st exam >were immediately taken off the bulletin board.
Oh dear. Were there any more positive long-term results? It really steams me when the result of a complaint is the destruction or removal of the supporting evidence. (A bit off topic but an interesting tangent: This is part of the theory behind the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act: it is illegal to point out any security flaws in software. The theory seems to be that if we don't talk about them they don't exist. The EFF Web page >http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html has a writeup on some other consequences.) -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ "My theory was a perfectly good one. The facts were misleading." -- /The Lady Vanishes/ (1938) . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
