I get tons of emails from students everyday. If you follow the following guidelines, it will make my job much easier, and will make the prospect of you receiving a reply that much greater!

• I teach 4 different sections of two classes. It is very difficult for me to figure out who you are. Please put your full name (without nicknames), your class and section, and your UMKC email name in every email that you send to me.
• U is a letter, not a word. Ur is an early civilization in Mesopotamia, but neither one refer to me! Please do not use these abbreviations! I find them both lazy and rude. If it is too much work for a programming student to type you or your, then perhaps a career change is in order. I will not answer emails such as these.
• Do not send an email without a subject line. If I do not have a subject line, I generally ignore the email (from now on). If you do not know how to get the subject line to work, call 816-235-2000, that is the UMKC helpdesk, they can show you how it works in Outlook. If you use another email client, you are on your own. Replying to an email with a subject line that has nothing to do with your subject is equivalent to telling a lie! Also the subject line should be descriptive, a subject such as help, does not tell me much!.
• Do not mark emails as urgent. I assume that all emails from students are urgent! Especially when they come in less than an hour before the deadline for homework submission. Marking your email as urgent is like trying to cut in front of the line, but on my computer tends to move you to the end of the line, until there is no more line! The same goes for voice mail.
• My email clients do not return receipts. Therefore, yours should not request a receipt when you send email to me.

I appreciate everyone's help on this. When you get out of UMKC, and get a real job, your boss may appreciate the fact that you realize the difference between email and an AOL chat session!!