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Questions tagged [email]

Questions on using e-mail for communicating literature and collaborating with peers. Also related to academic advertising or announcements.

As a modern communication medium e-mails are widely used in academia. It is in this context that this tag has relevance; use of e-mails for various types of communications and the style and language to use in these communications are especially important.

Another aspect is on the use of e-mails for advertisements or announcements of publications and conferences.

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Was a professor correct to chastise me for writing "Prof. X" rather than "Professor X"?

I emailed Professor X regarding typos in, and questions on, his book. I've never met and contacted him. My email commenced with this salutation: Dear Prof. X He replied It is customary to address professors by their title in full, just as most…
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How to get people to reply to emails and what to make of a no response?

Most people in research probably have first-hand experience regarding how difficult it is to get some people to reply to emails, e.g. (but not limited to) some reputed professors. It is also difficult to establish how to interpret a lack of…
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Why do professors obfuscate their email addresses on their websites?

I've always wondered why professors write their emails like this: john dot doe @ harvard dot edu I am trying to figure out some benefit of this but I can't think of one. It is definitely not more clear. It is more work if you are actually trying to…
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What are legitimate reasons for students to use their personal, rather than university, email accounts?

I'm affiliated with one British and one American university. Both mandate students to email from their university email accounts. Some students don't. When I emailed them to ask why, one student replied I need to use my personal, rather than…
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A staff member was rude to me in an email and made me look bad in front of other members of the staff. How should I handle this?

Due to some unfortunate miscommunication, one of the staff members at a university felt like I did not meet one of my obligations. The staff member sent me an extremely rude email that happened to include other members of the department who I happen…
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How should degrees be listed in an e-mail signature?

I have the following degrees: PhD in Information Technology (Computer Science concentration) MS in Systems Engineering (MSE) MS in Engineering Management (MEM) BS in Computer Science What would a proper e-mail signature look like? Examples: Dr.…
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Do some or most universities allow retiring faculty to retain their faculty email accounts?

Upon retiring after decades with the same university and rank of full professor I did not realize that I would lose my faculty email account until it was too late to save years of correspondence including correspondence concerning a paper currently…
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If I don't know whether a staff member has a PhD, should I address her as Dr. in my emails?

There have been a few circumstances where I've had to email an authority at my school and didn't know whether they had a PhD (e.g. An instructor of mine who I knew had been a PhD candidate a few years earlier, but perhaps graduated since then). In…
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Do teachers want students to add their attempts on solving their own question in an email?

I think this question holds for any kind of class, but if it actually makes a difference, it's a graduate level class. Today I was drafting an email asking about uncertainties in a paper I'm supposed to do a presentation on. When posing the…
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Why do people in academia tend to write their email address with "(dot)", "(at)", instead of ".", "@"?

This may be a silly question, but why do people in academia tend to write their emails as jhon(dot)doe(at)gmail(dot)com?
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Keeping email records when moving between posts

This question is about maintaining email records when changing institutions. I’m writing it here because it seems to be a problem quite specific to the academic context of managing long-term relationships within the context of a series of short-term…
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As a graduate student, is it better to use a Gmail address or [email protected]?

As a grad student (Note: I am in the humanities, so nobody is really technically inclined), I have an address from my institution (.edu) but I rarely use it. I suppose I do "use" it, but it forwards to my gmail and usually I reply with my gmail…
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Why do faculty use two different email addresses?

Why faculty usually have two official email addresses, the university and the department address? [email protected] [email protected] Do they use the second more to communicate with students and the first for other tasks? They…
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Does timing of emails matter?

I wonder: everyone in academia handles a lot of email, on all aspects of their work. I mean, emails about conferences, emails about journals and papers, emails about research, teaching, supervized students, and so on. So if you have a big…
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Should I use both surnames when addressing a Spanish professor as 'Dr' in an email?

I'm writing my professor. She has two surnames. So far, I've been using only her first surname; however, I'm curious whether that's, generally, how I should address a professor with two surnames. I don't know whether the addressee's culture affects…
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