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From: days@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP (Judge Dredd)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Information Overload and What We Can Do About It
Message-ID: <150@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 02:33:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 02:33:15 1985
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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. 

	The problem as I see it with keywords is that people would abuse them.
A better method to cut down traffic would be to default to local distribution
The number of adverts for cars being sold in NJ which we receive in EUROPE is
truly horrendous. Also cancel articles which dont contain anything except
quotes from a previous article. We get quite a few long articles, which after
you've waded through pages of lines beginning in "> " have a
REPLACE LINE WITH MESSAGE line and finally a signature. An alternative ( which
should appeal to all net.fascists) is to prevent users posting stuff or posting
stuff off-site, until they've proved that they know what they're doing.
	Little things like prompting the user for a 'y' response after a message
would also help :-)
-- 
Stephen Day, Comp Sci Dept, University of Glasgow, Scotland

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