mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) (05/13/89)
I think it's probably a fact of life (unfortunately) that
getting all the net.anarchists out there to toe some line,
no matter how reasonable, is an exercise in futility.
Something I've been speculating on for some time is a
smart news reader, which would only show you the *good*
stuff. This would be quite a challenge to the AI people,
especially since everyone has a different idea of what
"the good stuff" is. How about it out there -- is
natural language AI technology up to being able to classify
a message, detect flames, detect one-line followups with
a 100 line prior message quoted in its entirety even when
the poster changes the ">" to something else -- the list
of possibilities could go on forever. And, of course,
to dynamically change the 'squelch' criteria for each
individual's tastes, or whim of the moment.
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