Names changed to protect my grade.

Hi Professor XXXXXXX,

I'm Kevin Deenihan... I e-mailed you earlier about coming to your office hours. I'm enrolled in your XXXXXX class.

In a different class section last week I overheard a fellow XXXX student talking about how it was possible to find answers to the problem sets online by searching for a certain word string.

I did this, and found the class website you set up for XXXXX in Fall of 2000. While the website was taken down, the problem sets and answers remain in Google Cache. I notice that the problem sets we're using are extremely similar, as are the answer sets for the questions in the book we're using.

http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:d0FKjT3a0Z8C:XXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXX147&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://216.239.51.100/search?sourceid=navclient-menuext&q=cacheXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I couldn't say how much of the class knows about this. Knowing how to use Google Cache is somewhat specialized knowledge. But from my vantage point at the Daily Cal, I know of several classes where cheating of this nature became so widespread that midterms had to be dropped from the grading entirely.

-Kevin
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