chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) (02/13/84)
after some study, i found that when i went through net.followup, i spend time 'n'-ing follow-ups to dull subjects such as what does the word foo mean? (DONT ASK!!!) of the 30 articles posted one day, 28 of them were References to subjects i already 'n'-ed! (the other 2 new articles were 'n'-ed too...) what i am thinking of building as an E key. when you E and article, readnews will automatically 'n' any articles which Reference the E-ed article. if folks were encouraged to put the Reference line in the news header message, as most of them do now, then this method would work better. readnews would need to keep a per-newsgroup database of eradicated topics. References which were not hit for say 14 days (i.e., subject died off) would be automatically removed from the database. Q: - is the Reference field a good indicator, or should some system also keep track of the subject and look for Re: foo subjects? (i think not) - what method of storing/fetching the eradication info be used? - has this been done, or planned to be done soon? chongo <comments welcome> /\EE/\
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (02/15/84)
There already is such a thing in the version of vnews that I use.
It's called `ud' for unsubscribe to discussion...
Erik E. Fair
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