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From: jj@Eng.Sun.COM (Jennifer Jacobi)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: What can ISDN be used for
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Date: 11 Oct 90 07:12:12 GMT
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Anselm Lingnau writes:

> Various Secret Services ... might like to be able to obtain listings 
> of which people read which `radical' publication... Also one could 
> foresee `customized' junk `mail' to an even larger extent than is 
> normal these days. Yuck. 

Hmmm... So lets say the secret service does want to know what you read...
	why dont they just grab your .newsrc? Or why don't they grab the
	alias listing for a 'radical' mail group?  

Mind you this is a _primitive_ version of a news filter, but it does provide
a way for an individual to specify a listing of news_groups to read.

And as for junk mail... the "signal to noise" ratio on many news groups and
mailing lists is the equivalent to junk mail. IMHO

All that an elaborate information customizer will do is provide a way for 
me to view the information I am interested in _quicker_.

Jennifer Jacobi