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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!csusac!sactoh0!vector0!jon
- From: jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: News/mail reader
- Message-ID: <oksNuB5w165w@vector0.SAC.CA.US>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 21:08:23 GMT
- References: <TXuFuB1w165w@clovis.felton.ca.us>
- Organization: Vector Zero
- Lines: 31
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- tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden) writes:
-
- > dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell) writes:
- >
- > > (in the more experimental realm--)
- > > Another thing I want to try is building an optional keyword index from
- > > all articles on the system (either subject, full text, or both) and
- > > allow global searches.
- >
- > Good, good. Maybe a news threader so we can follow by subject
- > and then revert back to where we were and even have all the
- > articles in the thread taken out of the queue?
-
- Makes me think more of Killfiles--or, specifically, of the
- opposite of Killfiles. Interest files.
- Build the global database and then the user creates a list of
- topics he's interested in. Stick in people's names if you like
- reading their articles. Add in keywords for interesting postings,
- then reverse-thread to the start of the Subject: list to read the
- postings in chronological order. Sounds neat to me.
-
- Example:
- keywords: sex,drugs,rock,roll
- from: John Palmer,BIFF
-
- Could bring up any posts matching any of the above criteria
- in the joined groups.
-
- --Jon
-
- jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US Life is like a kiwi.
-