Xref: utzoo news.groups:3815 news.admin:2215 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: What about when a group is obviously needed Message-ID: Date: 18 May 88 08:27:40 GMT References: <1592@looking.UUCP> <514@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 34 To: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu In article <514@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>, shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker) writes: > In article <645@taux01.UUCP> amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes: > ! < Explination of backbone people...> > ! < And then about Bob Webber > > >(We are still waiting for your keyword-based > >news system to replace the newsgroup system!) I can't imagine what was meant by this (time warping has brought your quote before the message you quote apparently). The keyword-based system is already in place. As explained earlier, the keywords are the text of the message. The patterns that you choose to match on are a function of your interests, various net idioms, and the computational resources you can bring to bear on the task. I run the searches as background jobs -- am currently recasting the awk prototype into lex as the startup of a large awk script per new news message was causing the runs to take a bit longer than I liked. If instead of the keyword-based system what was actually being referred to was the ascii hypertext system, that is progressing nicely. Look for it on alt.hypertext and/or alt.sources. > And the public domain C compiler which will run on all machines so we > can get rid of the evil binary groups from Hell :-) When this was last brought up, nil interest was expressed by the net in such a thing. Since I have little personal usage for it, it sank rather low on the list of things to do. On the other hand, there are enough fiddles to the layout of the CPL/BCPL/B/C/C++ family that would make a really nice language, that you might yet see P (for Portable), whether you want it or not. Enjoy. --- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)