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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Semi-moderated newsgroups
Message-ID: <1989Nov22.002002.16906@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:20:02 GMT
References: <10275@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Deja vu...  Both this suggestion:

As quoted from <1989Nov19.223239.26100@algor2.algorists.com> jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:
+---------------
| [on semi-moderated groups]
| One way the interface could behave is as follows.  A number of posters
| are "authorities".  One type of good choice for authorities is people
| who answer lots of questions, usually in an accurate manner.
+---------------

And this suggestion:

As quoted from <10275@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> by linimon@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon):
+---------------
| 2. The more general case, which has been mentioned by several folks, is
|    to expand the KILL file concept to a more general one: essentially
|    a simple expert system where you could set the rules, such as
| 
|    "assign articles by default to 0"
|    "add to articles from Spaf +10"
|    "add to articles from Joe Flamer -10"
|    "add to articles with PC in the title -7"
|    "set current viewing threshhold to +5"
+---------------

Have been suggested by Brad Templeton.  In fact, he has already *written* the
software described above; it's called "newsclip".  Unfortunately, I think he
made it commercial, but someone could always write a PD version.  (Me?  I
think not; I've got programming projects coming out my wazoo already.)

++Brandon
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