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Subject: Re: response to questions about Stargate Experimental Subscriptions
Message-ID: <1919@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 03:32:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 03:32:58 1987
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Summary: stargate -> "best of"?

In article <3388@cbosgd.ATT.COM>, mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
> We are working on ways to extract the signal from this type of newsgroup
> [the unmoderated ones] and put it on Stargate.

Perhaps the best use of Stargate would be to broadcast a "best of Usenet",
i.e. selective broadcast across all newsgroups.  [cf. the discussion
in mod.comp-soc about "information filters"].  Those who wanted the
noise as well as the signal (or more likely had a different definition
of noise and signal) ought to be able to get the rest of the articles in
those newsgroups via land communications, using Stargate as an ordinary
(partial) newsfeed.  Or will Stargate have its own set of newsgroups?

Stargate plays havoc with the notion of distributions.	Any article
broadcast by Stargate effectively has a distribution of "na" regardless
of what the poster specified.  Will articles sent via Stargate be given
a Distribution: line of (for instance) "stargate"?

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck