Greetings,
   I apologize for the mail-bombs of jESSE mail this evening.  A setting 
was changed this evening which, unfortunately, could resolve in many 
people being spammed.  If you have problems from jesse mail, please have 
your mail server administrators get in touch with me and I'll tell them 
what I reluctantly had to do.
   We have all seen the decline in higher education - more and more classes 
are being taught by graduate students and contingent faculty rather than 
tenured or tenure-track faculty.  The same thing is happening in support 
for information technology:  rather than seasoned professionals who 
understand the complexity of software, who are retiring, more support is 
being offered by ... well to be polite, folks who don't understand the 
complexity of software.
   I have to clean up the blood from my fingers that I chewed on while 
composing this msg in order to be polite.
   I'm going back to working on my books.
   --gw

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Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA           [log in to unmask]
http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/
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SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
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