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:[email protected]> [email protected] <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 5:19 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 4:07 PM To: FriAM <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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? -- ☣ uǝlƃ
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