On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu > wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > > I hardly ever see any of that . Probably because my friends are more > > knowledgeable. Those who sent the garish ones year ago, the " > > circuit letters" have been warned off. But if it is a truly personal > > message rather than prefab I do not object. > > You don't do computer support for ~600 faculty, staff and students, in > addition to the myriad mailing lists I'm on. > > You would not believe what some folks consider acceptable for > 'professional' email correspondence. People do things like pick ornate > script fonts at 8 points on floral backgrounds to send official email, and > embed page-wide animated gifs' of stupid little smiley blobs doing the wave > in their .sig > > <http://msnemotions.org/emoticons/1572.Smiliey-Wave.html> > > So you see it in every....damn....email you get from them. > > So faculty puts this in their requests for IT service? Jeez ! I will ask the JMC IT guy if he get's these. I would question the credentials of an instructor or prof who used hokeyness in academic communication. I have not seen it in messages from faculty here. But then I would expect Journalism and mass communications faculty to know better. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.youtube.com/fluxstringer http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com /in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
