Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA08448 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 14 May 2002 22:17:23 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 22:08:40 +0100 Subject: Re: pls direct me to a memetics list <eom> From: Steve Drew <sd014a6399@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <B9073B68.320%sd014a6399@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200205141939.UAA08258@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Wade.
Like I say, it is difficult to decide, and as Ray said, I think chain mail
is very valid. It is a message who's sole excistance relies on "copy me or
else!" In some respects one could regard this as a very basic meme
(parasite, virus?) hitching a ride on our copying ability. Me? I bin 'em.
Another thought is with regard to some of the jokes that have been posted.
Both your 'Snow' post and Grant's 'Jack Schitt' were one I passed on. How
many other's did so. It's info content, though funny, was not much higher
than a chain mail in terms of use.
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:44:18 -0400
> From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
> Subject: Re: pls direct me to a memetics list <eom>
>
> On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 12:17 , Steve Drew wrote:
>
>> it is difficult to know
>> what to leave out when looking at culture and memetics.
>
> I would like to know what the forum here considers valid to
> leave out of studies of culture (and memetics- which is a
> proposed mechanism of culture, after all....)
>
> Personally, I'd like to leave out any and all references or
> studies of chain letters- but that's a bias of mine.
>
> - - Wade
Regards
Steve
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