Re: another question

Jim Thomas (jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:17:19 -0600 (CST)

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, scheidenhelm carol wrote:

> So--here's another one. One of our colleagues would like to, via e-mail
> in Netscape, send semi-personalized comments to his students concerning
> their exams. [John, Overall, you did a very good job on your recent
> mid-term. You might want to consider the following comments as you
> prepare for the next test ...]

What I do is probably klutzy and primitive, but I've found that
(on Unix) using the vi editor with some pre-written comments that
can be inserted in about 1 second, and a symbol of some kind that can be
replaced with something personal (eg, changing * to "your paper on
violence") is quite easy. For a number of papers, put a page break
at the end, print out the comments, and attach them to the papers.

jt