Xref: utzoo comp.archives.admin:74 comp.text:8569 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin,comp.text,news.software.readers Subject: Re: copyright status and future development of comp.archives Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 08:15:24 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Followup-To: comp.archives.admin Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 44 In-Reply-To: ryan@ra.cs.umb.edu's message of 19 Jun 91 18:18:31 GMT In article ryan@ra.cs.umb.edu (Daniel R. Guilderson) writes: I think we should be discussing ways which we could distribute the work load as widely as possible so that noone person is overly burdened. "burden" is perhaps too strong a word; I like what I'm doing. Maybe it will work, maybe not, but I think it is a better idea than having one person or one company sifting through megabytes of crap to find a few gems. Actually, it's kind of neat to be able to sift through 30 megabytes a day and pick out 30K of useful information; unfortunately, it just takes a little too long, because I haven't translated my knowlege about what it is that makes up a "gem" posting into code yet. That's one reason for going commercial on some part of it -- there is code out there that I could buy or license right now which would make the job easier. The market that's driving it is the financial market, all of those people sitting watching the Dow Jones news wire and triggering alerts for them to notice one hot topic or another; several firms have reasonable systems. (The ones I know of off the top of my head are Ful/Text from Fulcrum and Topic by Verity; no doubt there are others.) Think of it as part of the developmental evolution of news readers. Instead of evaluating only the articles in each newsgroup, the modern newsreader gets a "full feed" and looks at each article using criteria which span multiple newsgroup boundaries. So you could easily look for discussions that are going on in multiple places, or find people and follow their postings no matter where they're posting them, or (as we have now as a special case) find all of the new source posting announcements. Everyone sifts through megabytes of crap to find a few gems; it's time for that technology to be more widely available. -- Edward Vielmetti, moderator, comp.archives, emv@msen.com "(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational and training software; " "High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"