Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site cae780.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!amd!amdcad!cae780!gordon From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Keyword based news Message-ID: <1424@cae780.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 13:49:24 EDT Article-I.D.: cae780.1424 Posted: Thu Oct 3 13:49:24 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 07:30:37 EDT References: <16460@watmath.UUCP> <1419@utcsri.UUCP> <132@mck-csc.UUCP> <3189@nsc.UUCP> <265@ukecc.UUCP> Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Organization: Tektronix, Inc. (CAE Systems Division), Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 16 In article <265@ukecc.UUCP> edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes: > But in order for all this to work, you must still rely on posters >to label thier postings with the proper keywords. What's to prevent some >malicious type person from labeling a particularly offensive posting >with "Keywords: sex UNIX pontiac"? The same thing that keeps that poster from sending the article to net.singles, net.social, net.unix, net.unix_wizzards, net.auto, AND net.general -- viz. nothing. So what would we lose? A jerk is still a jerk in either case. However, the equivalent of "innocent" mis-postings to, for example, net.general should be much lower. FROM: Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc. UUCP: tektronix!teklds!cae780!gordon {ihnp4, decvax!decwrl}!amdcad!cae780!gordon {nsc, hplabs, resonex, qubix, leadsv}!cae780!gordon