[FRIAM] Thread/Post hygiene

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Marcus, 

 

The chief impediment to harvesting emails for first drafts of books is order and threading.  I once spent a month trying to rescue a discussion amongst another group, which had much fewer spinoffs than we exhibit.  I tried to design macros to get rid of redundancies, etc.  in the end I gave up.  Of course, one of the worst obstacles was my own larding.  The other was automatic recapitulations of previous posts within previous posts ad infinitum.  

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 5:19 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Thread/Post hygiene

 

I think there should be a XML-based ontology format to encode our important conversations as a formal system.   And not mere CSS3, there should be a whole XSL pipeline to generate Nick’s book.  Everyone follow the rules or your e-mails will not validate and will be rejected by the mail server!

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> > on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com> >
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Date: Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 4:07 PM
To: FriAM <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com> >
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Thread/Post hygiene

 

I think there's a way to embed CSS. But this stuff is obnoxious to me. So I don't think I'll take the time to figure out how to do it. It's hard enough to look at myself in the mirror while doing this! 8^)

On 6/4/20 3:59 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

c'mon can't you get a <blink>BLINK!</blink> tag in there too?

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