Xref: utzoo comp.org.usenix:695 news.software.b:1869 news.misc:2561 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,news.software.b,news.misc Subject: Re: Information Overload and How You Can Help! Message-ID: Date: 26 Jan 89 15:26:08 GMT References: <27728@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Organization: Wild-Eyed Extremists for Freedom, Inc. Lines: 20 In <27728@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Erik E. Fair) writes: > [Announcement of USENET user interfaces BOF] > > The whole point is to stimulate some progress in this area, and we > VERY strongly encourage IMPLEMENTORS to join in, since these good > ideas will go nowhere if no one implements them. You know who you are! Yes, yes, I know. You mean me (among a few others). I'd love to be there and tell you guys all about my thread-following code and the enhanced subject-line listing features and schemes for implementing hypertext-style filter-by-link. Abd I'd love to hear about good new design ideas. Unfortunately, working on TMNN and my recent hardware troubles have left me in a bad hole -- I can't *afford* USENIX. Even the bloody *plane fare* would sink me. Unless you can get the conference organizers to scholarship me, I'm not gonna be there. Sigh... -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) Email: eric@snark.uu.net CompuServe: [72037,2306] Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718