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From: quantum@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60113000)
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Subject: Re: Expert system reader for netnews
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Date: 26 Mar 88 02:54:54 GMT
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In article <8028@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>--
>You can turn a news directory into a MH "folder" by making a symbolic
>link to the news directory. Once you have done that, you can use the
>scan and pick commands of MH to select the ones you want.
>

I am aware one could implement shell scripts or other programs to wade
through news articles, but what I really wanted was an automated program
that would, in the middle of the night, scan through articles of interest
and save them to a folder.  Needless to say, it should operate without
human intervention, collecting articles.

Source to programs that interpret/process text in phrases would be appreciated.
I haven't had time to refer to comp.sources archives, so I don't know if some-
one has written parts of programs than do grepping and expression expansion.

At the moment, I am thinking of working on a version that would talk to an
Internet news-server daemon.  Though if you had the news articles physically
on ones machine, it would be trivial to implement.

Remember, I'm just sounding out iif people are interested in the concept, I
haven't started any work on this yet.  Thanks.

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Gary M. Lin			quantum@ucscb.UCSC.EDU
Computer Engineering		!ucbvax!ucscb!ucscc!quantum
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