mastertangler wrote on Apr 14^th, 2011 at 11:41am:

Sooooo, I spent many hours divulging via email all that I knew and went through every aspect withholding nothing. I found this to be an annoying exercise to this extent. After having spent much time explaining some aspect concerning technique or bait I would regularly receive a question a few weeks later relating to the very material I had already answered in great depth. It made me wonder if they were just skimming the material without really absorbing or studying it.

Sad, but true ...

For a "large section" lower division college class there was a portion of the course syllabus covering what should be placed in e-mails (so I got sufficient information to answer questions) and what kinds of responses the student should expect to get.

Preceeding the predefined e-mail response "DOH!" it said "You will receive this response when I've already covered this material in class not less than THREE times."

dd