[317] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
A few questions re current discussions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun Welch)
Thu Mar 7 17:19:40 1991
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 09:42:05 -0500
From: Arun Welch <welch@cis.ohio-state.edu>
To: emv@ox.com
Cc: jhaverty@us.oracle.com, ddern@world.std.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Edward Vielmetti's message of Tue, 05 Mar 91 14:10:30 EST <m0jDhP5-0003k1C@crane.aa.ox.com>
In message <9103051649.AA01636@rivendell.us.oracle.com> Jack Haverty
describes an "intelligent" mail agent. It's too long to quote the
whole thing, so I won't.
>Like I say it's real doable.
It's not only doable, it's been done. See the Tom Malone's work on the
_Information Lens_ project at MIT Sloan School. That was mail rather
than news based, but I think they're working on news now (I haven't
kept up with them in some time).
...arun
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Lisp Hacker, Anzus Consulting
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