Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!nmtsun!caasnsr From: caasnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation: A Moderator's Response Message-ID: <2727@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Date: 13 Jun 89 05:18:53 GMT References: <41197@bbn.COM> <12113@well.UUCP> <41207@bbn.COM> <632@biar.UUCP> <3305@epimass.EPI.COM> Reply-To: caasnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams) Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM Lines: 44 In article <3305@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass writes: >... >I have no problem if someone wants to hire Geoff Goodfellow as their >editor, and I have no problem if someone wants to sign up for Brad >Templeton's service either. These efforts to attempt to stop >innovation with legal restrictions seem to me to be the kind of thing >that folks that believe in freedom should be against. > >The reason we're seeing a lot of proposals like Geoff's and Brad's at >this time is because there's a demand for it. The net has simply >become too large. A better response to these proposals is to come up >with competing proposals that would be free. >-- >-- Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck I have been working on a system like this for almost 6 months now. It will be free, but it will take a lot of work to get started (I plan to take about 5 years to write the software). I think that it will be useful by that time (I think Brad's proposal might be a bit early in terms of users willing to pay). The basic idea behind my approach is that people can "locally" (defined by cheap communications) communicate recommendations of good articles, and readers can use these recommendations to select articles. Added to this would be a number of national-level moderators who would select articles from local areas for a national recommendation, and add keywords to the article. Moderation would not be a paying activity, but many people would still moderate for ego reasons. Now I just need to write the software (a Simple Matter of Programming (1/2 :-)). I am interested in hearing from anyone who is doing similar, or related work, or anyone interested in programming this beast. I am also interested in any opinions about this. I will post more details if anyone is interested. -- Clifford A. Adams --- "I understand only inasmuch as I become." caasnsr@nmt.edu ...cmcl2!lanl!unm-la!unmvax!nmtsun!caasnsr (505) 835-6104 | US Mail: Box 2439 Campus Station / Socorro, NM 87801