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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
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 07:50:31 1985
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Reply-To: putnam@kbsvax.UUCP (jefu)
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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.





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