Re: Programming challenge: Undo

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

I find it very useful in tracking down students' plagiarisms. It's
amazing what traces they leave--URLs for example.

On Jun 28, at 3:13 PM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> In the case of Word, by invisibly (but retrievibly, to many a
> hapless user's sorrow) keeping _everything_ that is done in the
> file. So a non-printing comment to a colleague, in which you speak
> your mind about the boss's intelligence--or lack thereof--is
> "deleted" by the colleague, but is still really there, and can be
> ferreted out by a paranoid boss. Or there was the case someone
> called to my attention offlist, where a lawyer's Paralegal "cut" (as
> she thought) the rather gamy details of her boss's correspondence
> with one client, and reused the boilerplate in the file for an e-
> mail attachment to another--who opened it in another program and saw
> all the gamy details.




David Auerbach
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