Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: keyword-based news
Message-ID: <2018@looking.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 18:48:18 GMT
References: <1127@ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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When I created my concept of keyword based news, I never meant a
arbitrary keyword search as you might find with on-line databases.
(Indeed, doing that does not involve changing the structure of news at all,
you could write that sort of search program for today's articles.)

Perhaps "keyword" news was a bad choice of name.
What I really meant was highly classified news, and "keyword" seemed as
good a name as any for the new classifications.

The KNEWS concept (can't call it C news!) involves switching from around
500 categories (newsgroups) to several thousand, arranged in an easy to
understand hierarchy.  This gets combined with a nice pattern matching
language to select articles based on categories and other parameters.

I still would love to see it happen, but who has the time.  So many newsgroups
are just too big to read these days.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473