[9070] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: sleaze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Raisch, The Internet Company)
Wed Dec 15 18:43:01 1993
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 14:47:10 -0800 (PST)
From: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
Reply-To: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
To: francis@avalle.insoft.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312151915.AA10744@avalle.insoft.com>
On Wed, 15 Dec 1993 francis@avalle.insoft.com wrote:
> Keep in mind that, for many newsgroups, this "closed system" would be
> just fine.
Ummm.. I might be way off base here, but closed, moderated newsgroups
demand a lot of time and effort -- some human making a load of editorial
decisions. Abstracting other sources compounds the problem. I'd ask Brad
Templeton what it takes to properly manage a whole hierarchy of content
controlled, managed newsgroups.
The first rumors I heard about Clarinet, oh so very long ago, were that
they would take the wealth of information from Usenet, clean out the cruft
and nonsense, and provide a distilled, high-content valued added
publication. All the content, none of the noise. My first impression was
that this would be an incredible nightmare to administer and maintain.
On the other hand, I really think that the golden parachute, the next
great frontier in information on the Internet is providing vertical,
horizontal, and diagonal slices of the Infoverse --tailored to the
individual needs of customers. Adding value by pre-digesting and
interpreting the wealth of information at the other end of our wire.
If this sounds suspiciously like the job of a librarian/archivist/editor,
it is. I believe that the Internet or something like it will be the
guarenteed lifetime subsidy for all sorts of information professionals.
</rr>
