Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version Vortex 1.0 6/6/83; site vortex.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!vortex!lauren From: lauren@vortex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Comments on the proposed "K" news system Message-ID: <61@vortex.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 19:23:38 EDT Article-I.D.: vortex.61 Posted: Tue Jun 14 19:23:38 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 20:25:37 EDT Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles Lines: 18 While I like the overall concepts of the proposed "K" news system, I do have one basic reservation. I suspect that any system that heavily relies on users to select meaningful keywords may not be generally successfully. It's hard enough to get people to come up with useful "simple" subject lines posted to the "correct" newsgroup! Badly chosen keywords might be worse than no keywords at all, since useful messages might never be seen by persons whose news profiles "assume" well chosen keywords on all messages. The bottom line is that if keywords are chosen with the same care and consideration that many subject/newsgroup determinations are made, now we won't have gained much (and might have actually lost something) over the existing news systems. Just an opinion. --Lauren--