[6016] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Collaborative Flaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Arnett)
Tue Oct 4 00:07:04 1994
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 05:03:58 +0100
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From: narnett@verity.com (Nick Arnett)
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At 2:12 PM 10/2/94 +0100, CyberWeb wrote:
> Let there be Lurkers
> and Talkers. The forum acts like a moderated list for Lurkers, and
> unmoderated for Talkers. Lurkers can graduate to Talkers by laying
> down a history of good posts to the forum
Let me get this straight -- one can only post articles to the group after
having posted some good articles to the group? You read Catch-22 twice,
I'm guessing... ;-)
> or by track record, e.g.
> being author of Mosaic, HTTPD, libwww, ...
Ah, the truth emerges. Does a HyperCard prototype count?
But somewhat more seriously, those of us in the agent business should
probably be investing more R&D into a new kind of automatic characterizing:
identification of advertisements, flames and other situationally
objectionable dreck. That way, you could set your own rules for who can
virtually post a flame, or ad, or whatever.
Old idea, new wrinkle.
Nick (I swear, I have never even looked at the NCSA code, even to scare
children.)
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