Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!macrakis From: macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis) Newsgroups: net.news,net.ai,net.legal Subject: Re: Software to screen future net news. Message-ID: <267@harvard.ARPA> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 21:28:23 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.267 Posted: Tue Jan 8 21:28:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:05:31 EST References: <494@vortex.UUCP> <32@osu-eddie.UUCP> <1326@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Comp. Lab., Harvard Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.news:2931 net.ai:2454 net.legal:1253 `Software moderators' seem like a non-solution to a non-problem. What I want for bulletin boards is some better software for reading them, allowing for `reviewing'. As each user reads the news, hse types mini-comments, like 0 (quality) 9 (quality) s (scurrilous) o (obscene) h (attempt at humor) r (redundant) x (irrelevant to this group). 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 might want to delay judgement until a day or a trusty review has come in. Anyone want to try to implement this? I suspect this conventional programming task would produce something much more useful than some pseudo-AI pseudo-moderator.