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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes
Subject: Re: Information Overload and What We Can Do About It
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 12:52:19 EDT
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> I disagree, since the current setup will be replaced by a set of keywords
> that will allow you to define and filter material in what I hope will be a
> more efficient way. newgroups as they are currently defined would map into
> keywords pretty well, and you could set up your filtering mechanisms to let
> you browse through a set of interests. 
> 
> If it comes together as I hope, you ought to be able to do things pretty
> much the way we do it now if you want, but I also expect that you'd be able
> to do them a lot better. You don't lose any functionality. you just gain a
> lot more flexibility.

Chuq, I'd love to see an explanation of how people who can't even get stuff
into the right newsgroup half the time are going to cope with a more complex
and more flexible interface.  Keywords lose big if half the messages that
come in have inappropriate or just-plain-wrong keywords on them.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry


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