If I reply to a nightly email notification message, will the reply reach my professor or teammates?
The nightly "eRoom report" notifications are informational and do not have the capability of routing email replies to recipients. If you reply to a notification, it will go to the webCafé technical support group, rather than to anyone connected to a particular course or organization. We currently don't forward these replies, in part because it's usually impossible for us to determine who the recipients should have been.
Keep in mind that each notification you receive is personalized based on the parts of a webCafé room you can access. The notification may list changes and additions to webCafé posted by anyone in the class or club. Even though an individual's name may be listed in the body of the notification as having posted a change or addition, the notification isn't an email from that particular person.
If you need to send a message to the professor of a course, use the contact information shown on the course syllabus. To reach a fellow student related to something in a notification, consider whether your comment might be appropriate for posting directly in webCafé, usually either in Discussions or the Comments area shown under a folder. If you are sure you should send an email reply, you can look up recipients' email addresses using the Wharton Student Directory in SPIKE or by using the envelope icons in a webCafé room's member list (accessible when you click "members" on the top-level folder of the room).
Unless you are the instructor or TA of a course, don't send a follow-up message about a notification by using the "select all" feature of the alert (paper airplane) button in a course webCafé room. Always seek to limit your e-mails to the narrowest possible list of recipients; your fellow users will appreciate this.