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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes
Subject: Re: Information Overload and What We Can Do About It
Message-ID: <1482@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 17:28:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 17:28:07 1985
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These are some good points.  I'd like to expand on one of them.

If, within a newsgroup, for each article you form
	concat(references, message-id)
and sort by the result, you'll have all the discussions in order.
Ties are broken by date of submission.  There is no need to look
at the subject line anymore (is there?)

Also, it sure would be nice if the discussions (identifiable by
having the same prefix in the above concatenation) were grouped
when you asked "what's next" it showed one line per conversation,
possibly with an article count.

	Mark


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