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From: biep@klipper.UUCP (J.A. 'Biep' Durieux)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.news.group
Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism
Message-ID: <329@klipper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 07:31:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 07:31:32 1984
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Reply-To: biep@klipper.UUCP (J.A. 'Biep' Durieux)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: Keywords, Selection
Summary: Creating corners for splinter discussions

e fact [especially in newsgroups like net.politics] some
  people want to provide facts, others want to flame, etc. I think a so-
  lution could be found in a more consequent use of keywords. My pnews
  program provides a header line `Keywords:'. If news could be selected
  on a logical expression of keywords [e.g.: Facts & ~Flame], and people
  would be willing to use the header line [I guess that will be the problem],
  news reading could be worthwile again. Special discussions could be
  given the keyword `Special', so people with `~Special' in their selector
  would never see them. Christian discussions about motts? OK, in net.motts
  even, if you want, but then with keywords `Special, Christian', so
  people not wanting to read them shouldn't have to. It of course requires
  an adaptation of newsread programs, enabling such filters [or do they
  exist already, without having to be invoked especially?]. Another
  advantage is that creating new newsgroups will become unnecessary.
  [of course, the Keywords header should be inherited in followups!]
  net.general=all news with *no keywords at all*; all followups get default
  `followup' as a keyword; flames as "This article doesn't belong in
  this newsgroup" should be replaces by "This article should contain
  the keywords ... ", and, finally: people wanting to talk about
  something just make their own place.

  I stop, for I see that wat began as a minor proposal is ending up
  being a revolutionary pamphlet.

                                                                Biep.

              {seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!botter!klipper!biep

  P.S.: A `special' discussion is a discussion provoking flames
  merely because of ist existence.