Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site steinmetz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!putnam From: putnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Keyword based news Message-ID: <280@steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 07:50:31 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.280 Posted: Mon Sep 30 07:50:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 07:28:33 EDT References: <1419@utcsri.UUCP> <808@vortex.UUCP> <1429@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: putnam@kbsvax.UUCP (jefu) Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 18 I personally rather like the idea of keyword based news, but think that there are definite problems. The worst is having the user choose the keywords. I dont believe this could ever work, instead, if there were some way to get the software to generate them, perhaps using Zipf's law and some weighting on keywords for the posting (if any) the person is responding to. It might also help to add `not` operators (but how to get the keyword generating software to do this? Sounds tough to me). Until this, at least, can be answered, the other questions are academic. -- O -- jefu tell me all about -- UUCP: edison!steinmetz!putnam Anna Livia! I want to hear all.... -- ARPA: putnam@kbsvax.decnet@GE-CRD