[318] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: A few questions re current discussions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Thu Mar 7 17:44:26 1991
To: Arun Welch <welch@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Cc: jhaverty@us.oracle.com, ddern@world.std.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 07 Mar 91 09:42:05 -0500.
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 91 17:26:55 EST
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
> it's been done (Information Lens)
What I've heard about Information Lens sounds really good; can
you provide a reference to some publications where i can get
more details?
A limitation of what I have seen is that Lens relies a lot on
people voluntarily adding a predictable, easily parsable structure
to at least a portion of each message they send. (Tools are
provided to ease the burden of getting all the headers right.)
Filtering through megabytes of netnews per day has to have a lot
of tolerance for looking for information in odd or unusual ways,
since a lot of the things you may want to find are only partially
specified and certainly not rigidly formatted.
--Ed
