Hello! On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:29:16PM +1000, Garry Hadiwibowo wrote: Perhaps some people would be more eager to help you if you were writing in plain text instead of HTML. Kind regards, Hannah.

Hello! On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:08:26PM +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

Hannah Schroeter wrote,

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:29:16PM +1000, Garry Hadiwibowo wrote:

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Perhaps some people would be more eager to help you if you were writing in plain text instead of HTML.

I think, it would be better if nobody helps Garry with his assignment work. In particular, as very specific penalties have been set out for plagiarism which explicitly include the attempt to solicit help from a public mailing lists.

I am sorry for the noise - keeping 600+ first-year students at bay is sometimes a bit challenging.

Yes I know. There has been a private response of Garry (again in HTML). In this case, I replied thus: - another HTML mail and I won't reply any more - some explanations about help wrt assignment works. HTML: That bloats mails unnecessarily, and at least here (mutt), it's less readable and I can't quote any of the HTML text in replies (except with much hassles). Please write plain ASCII. Assignments: I don't think there should be no help available for homeworks at all. But "I don't want to do anything, please solve the homework for me" isn't okay. It's okay like this: "I have that. I'm honest: That is an assignment. I've tried this <some source> and run into problem XYZ. I tried to get around that problem thusly but failed. Could you point me some steps ahead/around the problem?". That has, IIRC, also been good practise on the Haskell lists as well as on the programming newsgroups I know of. Enough said, I hope. Kind regards, Hannah.