Re: Stupid Professor Tricks

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From: holl... The Polymath
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 02:09

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In article <1990Feb28.2...@athena.mit.edu> ers...@athena.mit.edu (Ellen R. Spertus) writes:
}... to try to keep
}students from reusing papers, they kept a file of old junior themes ...

}... The teacher told us the department was considering making
}students turn in the floppy disk they did their work on.  He couldn't
}understand why the students thought this idea was funny.

Neither can I.  Yes, the students can keep a copy of the disk.  So?
Nothing kept the students from making copies of their note cards and old
themes, either.  The point is the department can build a machine readable
database of papers.  That would make copy detection _much_ easier -- which
is the whole point.

Sounds more like a stupid student trick to me.

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From: holl...@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
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Subject: Re: Stupid Professor Tricks
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Date: 2 Mar 90 02:09:28 GMT
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