Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Keyword based news Message-ID: <1300017@ccvaxa> Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 12:05:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.1300017 Posted: Thu Oct 10 12:05:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Oct-85 04:04:14 EDT References: <2225@ukma.UUCP> Lines: 48 Nf-ID: #R:ukma.UUCP:-222500:ccvaxa:1300017:000:2257 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Oct 10 11:05:00 1985 > /* Written 2:47 pm Oct 7, 1985 by woods@hao.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.news > */ I think 95% of the users would drop off the net if they had to pay > to post articles. That would make it NOT WORTH IT to pay to stay on the > net. ---------- Huh? I'd bet that 90% of the net readership never posts anything, and therefore would bear not cost. Whether that's equitable is another question. For technical files the reader should pay, for amusement files the poster should pay. ---------- > Two problems: 1) Who is going to pay [indexing moderators], or who will > be willing to volunteer for such a monumental task, and 2) What if I > don't like a particular moderator (and vice versa) and he labels all my > opinions as "flames", and so no one reads them? What recourse would I > have? ---------- People would certainly volunteer. Think of all the newsletters, fanzines, and other volunteer publications in the world. Being the editor of something that other people read is a kick. Some people also get paid for it; maybe there will eventually be files you have to pay for, with decryption keys sent to registered readers. Some institutions might pay for people to spend some part of their time doing this kind of thing as part of their professional responsibilities. As to (2), if you don't like a particular moderator you either find another file, moderated by someone you DO like and covering the same area (there's no reason there should be only one source for material in a given area), or you volunteer yourself to start one. Items could be tagged with indexing by multiple indexers. Readers could then say "Show me things indexed under "Unix-wizards" by Editor-x or by both Editor-y and Editor-z." There should then be a mechanism for transporting indexing information to existing notes, so that additional indexers' input could be registered after a note had arrived. Different editors could put different indexing on the same article, too. Editor-x might think the note should be read both by people interested in workstations and by people interested in user interfaces, Editor-y might think it too specifically display oriented to send to the interfaces category. ---------- -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece