Peter:
> Robin, I was using scam letters as teaching materials (cf. for instance, A
> Modest Proposal), but have lost track a bit lately. I've seen some very
> funny, extended dialogues arising from these scams.
You have to have the patience of the damned (and time) to play scam back --
like engaging in a dialogue with a cold-caller on the phone.
Or arguing with someone who thinks Oxford wrote Shakespeare
But Modest Proposal -- you ever cross-teach Swift and Defoe's "Shortest Way
With Dissenters"?
Bloody lethal, that can be.
About as bad as trying to teach "Benito Cereno" in a severely PC
environment.
<g>
Robin
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