Interesting what a strange bend this conversation took.
It started out (I think) as an observation that what makes the Net
work is that it has a few very simple, very well implemented/enforced
rules (low level protocols) and a mechanism for layering higher-level
protocols on those and
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From: Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Date: 9/5/2009 11:27:47 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fascism and ettiquette
Interesting what a strange bend this conversation took.
It started out (I think) as an observation
Glen,
You caught me in a slap-dash quip which I regretted the minute I started
reading your post. I have long been cranky with some of my associates who
have insisted, for instance, that using caps in an email message is
SHOUTING, or that it is bad manners to send messages in HTML. Now, I
similar to the process
of embryonic development and evolution itself.
-J.
- Original Message -
From: Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
To: friam@redfish.com
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 12:09 AM
Subject: [FRIAM] Fascism and ettiquette
Have we come so far?? Who
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 09-09-04 03:09 PM:
You caught me in a slap-dash quip which I regretted the minute I started
reading your post. I have long been cranky with some of my associates who
have insisted, for instance, that using caps in an email message is
SHOUTING, or that it is
