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Introduction to Oceanography with Professor Sean This page last updated: Monday, April 27, 2009 7:29 PM 5. E-Mail and Text Messaging Please send ALL e-mail to my academic e-mail address, schamberlin@fullcoll.edu, or my professional e-mail address, sean@oceansonline.com, but please never send me e-mail through CE6. I check my e-mail several times a day; I never check CE6 e-mail. My e-mail program, Entourage, lets me copy and paste, add attachments, keep e-mails in separate folders, track replies, and do a whole lot of nifty e-mail things very quickly that CE6 won't let me do. So please don't make me use it! =} When you send me e-mails, please always type a SUBJECT for your e-mail (like "Help", "a quick question", question about exam", etc). E-mails with untitled subjects will end up in the spam folder. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS put your FULL NAME and SECTION (OCEANOGRAPHY ONLINE) as the first line of all e-mails. This is the most common mistake that students make and then I have to reply and ask, "What's your name and what class are you in?" and then I get a reply with only a name and a class and no message so then I have to ask, "Who are you, what class are you in, and what do you want?" and it generally just gets ridiculous and a bit frustrating for sure and it's a real waste of precious seconds. (Isn't it funny how seconds seem like minutes in computer world?!) Please NEVER send me attachments. Copy and paste your message into the body of an e-mail. This is especially true for any forwards you might try to send me. Some e-mail services automatically turn forwards into attachments. Please don't send them. Attachments are the number one vector for dangerous computer viruses and I will delete them no matter what. Typically, you will receive an e-mail back from me within 48 hours, possibly within hours (minutes, sometimes), unless I am traveling. If you don't receive a message back from me, please send your e-mail again. Don't wait days for me to respond. If you don't hear from me, it could be that your e-mail inbox is full (always check this first) or that your e-mail address was incorrectly transmitted. Please feel free to send another e-mail. I'd rather get too many e-mails from you than none. And a special request...please be courteous! I promise to treat you with the manners and respect that you deserve if you promise to treat me the same. I am more than happy to listen to reasonable and rational statements. If I have made an error, I am more than happy to correct it. Kindness applies to your classmates as well. As a colleague with cancer writes at the end of all of her e-mails..."Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you know is fighting a battle of some kind!" | |
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