Re: Collaborative killfiling Re: META: Committee on Un-Extropian Activities

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 07:38:59 MDT


Sean Morgan wrote:
>
> Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> >What do you think of Harvey's refinement that simply diverts the
> "killfiled"
> >threads to a secondary list? No censorship there.
>
> If my tastes are offbeat I would be constantly switching between lists: your
> killfile and mine won't be exact matches. Of course if much of the community
> agrees that someone is a bozo I would want to factor that into my personal
> filter. But I want more features than just that; there still might be too
> much traffic on the primary list for me to go through when time is tight. I
> would much prefer to have deal with one list which meets my tastes. Rather
> than just sharing killfiles (that's sooo negative), this can be accomplished
> using collaborative filtering, as Sasha described.
>

So I'm curious, is there a timeline yet to when your system will be
usable, and also will it filter the mail on the server side or will
my system still have to download every piece of mail and then filter
it for me? Thanks



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