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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Most of you have responded now, so it is clear that
everything is working. David Hertzel asked a question about the operation
of the listserv whose answer is probably of interest to everyone:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Does a “reply all” work to reply to everyone on
the listserv? </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My reading of the Listserv instructions indicates that it
isn’t supposed to, but it looks as if it actually did when David tried it.
In fact, I got two copies of his message --- one addressed directly to me and
one addressed to me via the list. Since the instructions don’t seem
to say this, it could be that they just aren’t written well. They
seem to indicate that I can set both “reply” and “reply all”
to either go only to the original poster or to everyone on the list depending
on how I set a parameter in the setup. Clearly it would be best if “reply”
only went to the original poster and “reply all” went to everyone.
This is so clear, you’d think the programmers would have set it up that
way… So I’m hoping that the instructions just got it wrong. The
good thing is that it is easy to tell if your “reply all” was sent
to everyone, because you will get a copy of it along with everyone else. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>David also asked everyone what they thought about the possibility
of pressure from administrators concerning conformance to a state mandate on
course content based on the matrix. I can understand the concern, but my
feeling is that it won’t happen soon in Indian Studies if at all. I’m
not sure what it does beyond insure portability, which is what the matrix is
supposed to do anyway. If the issue is whether we might be under pressure
to more radically alter courses that have no equivalence so they are brought
into equivalence, I can see that this would increase portability. But, I’m
not sure what that does beyond help the students and I hate to say it, but I
doubt that student convenience is enough to cause many administrators to put
much pressure on anything. The fact that we are something of a backwater
(until our Association gets the State Regents to see the light), also means
that whatever the gain is, it probably won’t be worth doing a lot to get
Indian Studies to conform. So, I guess I’m not too concerned, but
some of you out there may know better…</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Lee</span></font></p>
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