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... The web page describing this group can be found here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/faceblind/ On this web page, you'll read the following: "Welcome...
Glenn Alperin
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Dec 2, 2008
8:49 pm
8509
I see what your saying, but I think it will take some serious effort and legislation before someone would have recourse in the situation you describe.  And if...
zaxwilson@...
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Dec 2, 2008
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All yahoogroups, as well as other egroups, have their posts show on search engines. It's not just this group. Legally and practically, anything on the web is...
Bonnie
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Dec 2, 2008
8:56 pm
8511
Yes, I should have noticed that. My bad. One of my disability issues is that I frequently miss such things. Very frequently. That's on me, of course. I am not...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
9:28 pm
8512
Actually, I 'own' a few yahoo groups. There is a setting for making the archives private to members, in which case search engines, as currently configured,...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
9:30 pm
8513
... While all of this is technically true, Yahoo does allow for groups to be classified as private to varying degrees at the whim of the group owner. As group...
Glenn Alperin
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Dec 2, 2008
9:42 pm
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... I'll bet that would make a difference. :( ... It doesn't hurt to ask for consideration. It also doesn't hurt to periodically ask for discussion on the...
Glenn Alperin
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Dec 2, 2008
9:51 pm
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I wasn't trying to make a big deal, and I even tried to find the email link for the group owner to send the request privately, but could not find it (it is...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
9:53 pm
8516
That is certainly very reasonable. I wouldn't presume to ask it based on just me. If the majority feels one way or another, I am certainly up for respecting...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
9:58 pm
8517
I am on another group that the yahoogroup moderator has set for private. Every prospective member is screened and the messages are available only to members....
Bonnie
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Dec 2, 2008
10:03 pm
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I find it pointless.   If someone wanted to go into the archive data then they could become a member of the group and view them.  What is the point of even...
daniel palmeri
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Dec 2, 2008
10:12 pm
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... This is a perfectly valid reason. ... This is perfectly valid too. ... Quite to the contrary, it hasn't offended me at all. It may be counter to the...
Glenn Alperin
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Dec 2, 2008
10:13 pm
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I don't want to belabor this. I can only tell you that, of the other groups I am on with settings that members only may read the message archives, I have never...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
10:14 pm
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Actually the president does have an email address as well as many of the staffers.   the standard government protocol is if its classified you do not use the...
daniel palmeri
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Dec 2, 2008
10:17 pm
8522
I am finding all of these new conversations very interesting! I am an extreme novice at bird watching but do enjoy it. When identifying a bird, even the...
vcreek2002
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Dec 2, 2008
10:26 pm
8523
Since I contributed a lot on the aspergers/autism front, I'll answer this part, at least from my own perspective. In essence, no. Faceblindness is described as...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
10:47 pm
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Thank you for your offer to remove posts. For now, I'll let it be. I'll have to think about whether or not I would want to remove something. Part of me cringes...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
11:10 pm
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I see what you are saying, I think. I doubt the ADA could get away with saying that only a genetic condition would qualify...that would be like saying only...
Shae
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Dec 2, 2008
11:22 pm
8526
QUESTION: Do faceblind people recognize birds or pets or breeds of dogs or cows or ..? This face blind person doesn't. - - - - - - - - - - QUESTION: Do others...
Bonnie
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8527
Medicine doesn't care about cause, only condition. Prosopagnosia is defined as an inability or difficulty in recognizing familiar faces. ...
Bonnie
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8528
... Sure. Prosopagnosia affects specifically the ability to recognize faces. Bird or cow faces don't register as "faces" (or at least that's not usually what...
Dawn
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8529
Hi, I read the link and found a lot of the information interesting and informative. I don't believe though that we are hybrids our ancestors mated with...
Marcyshamb@...
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8530
Hi, I read the link and found a lot of the information interesting and informative. I don't believe though that we are hybrids our ancestors mated with...
Marcyshamb@...
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8531
Marcy- You mentioned lactose intolerance.  Here's a neat tidbit I heard a while back.  Most adults in the world are lactose intollerant.  It is only folks...
zaxwilson@...
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4:05 pm
8532
Dawn- I'm not sure about the AS FB connection.  It may be that many folks have both, but face avoidance may indeed be part of face recognition probs for folks...
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4:11 pm
8533
Bonnie- In terms of the definition, it doesn't matter, but I wouldn't say medicine doesn't care where it comes from.  Research would just stop in that case. ...
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4:24 pm
8534
Hi, Yes, I have heard that too... Its the old Milk/butter folks verses the olive oil folks. The reason I brought it up was because of the article link that...
Marcyshamb@...
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8535
You mentioned lactose intolerance. Here's a neat tidbit I heard a while back. Most adults in the world are lactose intollerant. It is only folks of Northern...
Delila
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6:16 pm
8536
... From: <zaxwilson@...> ... That might explain why I seem to be car-blind as well as faceblind. Thankfully my FB condition isn't as bad as some...
Delila
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8537
Marcy- I haven't had a chance to see the article, but I have heard some little bit about the idea that early modern humans and Neanderthals might have been at...
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