[FRIAM] Uncanny Valley was: Biden beats Trump

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

I think the thread-bending horse left the barn a decade ago.  Even Owen could bend a thread or two in his time.  .  

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Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 11:00 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Uncanny Valley was: Biden beats Trump

On 11/11/20 8:57 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:

> How do the names of these threads get changed?

I changed this one manually... I simply edited the Subject Line in my "Reply To List" response.

When Owen was active here, he was a stickler against "thread bending"
and to the extent that my replies are almost *always* a tangent, I used to feel *more* compelled to branch the Subject.  I may be one of the few who try to maintain any of the inheritance of a thread with the "was:"
idiom.  

How important is thread hygiene to you (and others) here?  I'd like it if we were more thoughtful/consistent with this and I would *try* to comply if others came up with some guidelines.   I think the more facile members of the list (Glen in particular) have good tools and habits to make up for our wild thread bending/fraying/splattering, but I suspect it is a problem for some (many)?

- Steve



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