eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) (07/24/89)
Please help me save USENET from uselessness! ;-)
I'm looking for methods for filtering news articles for `interest level'
according to preferences expressed by the user, sort of a generalization
of the kill-files concept.
The idea is to use such software as a noise filter. This will be useful for
the present USENET, and become even more important as I turn USENET into
a distributed-hypertext system.
I would like to hear about any such work, whether statistical or knowledge-
based and *no matter how slow the method is or what language it's in!*
Code that is available and useful will be ported into the TMNN netnews suite and
made available for public redistribution under copyleft.
Thanks in advance...
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Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.uu.net (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)