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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP
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Subject: Comments on the proposed "K" news system
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Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 19:23:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 14 19:23:38 1983
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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--