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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes
Subject: Re: Information Overload and What We Can Do About It
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 23:01:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 23:01:01 1985
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>Perhaps an analogy can be made with paper mail.  I sort my paper mail into
>three piles -- junk mail, mail from friends that I intend to read right
>away and answer quickly, and magazines that I intend to put aside for leisure
>reading.  While it is no doubt reasonable for mail and news to have similar
>interfaces, I think it is also quite reasonable for the computer to know
>whether I am interested in reading and replying to my mail, or interested in
>browsing through the news.

Actually, NNTN does deal with this concept through the use of prioritizing
features and the ability to decide to only view messages with a given or
higher priority, so you can only look at the kinds of messages you're
interested. By prioritizing mail different from news, you can do just what
you want to do.

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:From the shores of Avalon:     Chuq Von Rospach 
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