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From: kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston)
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Subject: Improving the quality of what you read
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 14:54:49 EST
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> What I want for bulletin boards is some better software for reading
> them, allowing for `reviewing'.  ...
> 
> Each user would also have a database defining hirs tastes vis-a-vis
> other's judgements.  I might consider most material on some group to
> be garbage, so I only see it if someone I trust considers it interesting.
> Conversely, I might expect another group's messages interesting until
> proven otherwise, and so I might exclude them only if someone I trust
> reviews them badly.  ...

I am working on a research project at MIT that is hoping to implement
something similar to what Stavros is suggesting as one approach to
increasing the quality of the electronic news and mail that you read.
(Other approaches include better use of keyword type systems, etc.)
If anyone has any suggestions on how they would do this, what they
would like to see done, or what has been done, please let me know.

I suggest you mail me; I will send summaries of what I receive to
anyone interested.

Kevin Crowston
Aiken Computation Lab

kevin@harvard.{ARPA,CSNET,UUCP}