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- From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
- Subject: Re: sci.physics.research: proposed panel of moderators
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.050316.26677@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:03:16 GMT
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- I favor the moderated group. My kill list for sci.physics is quite
- short, but kills a large fraction of the postings. It wouldn't matter
- except that it takes some time to operate. Today, for example, I had
- to skip more than a dozen content-free postings by a single person.
-
- I suppose a better solution might be a "heuristic moderator" -- a
- message-kill operator that recognizes when a contributor is writing
- more papers than is likely to have content. It would conjecture that
- the 'offending' contributor has temporarily got into a bad state.
- After a couple of days, the filter would display a message of the form
-
- <xxx.. has contributed distinct 20 messages in the past 4 days, for
- a total of 80 cross-posted ones. These TEXTS include 40 CAPITALIZED
- WORDS. Would you like to read a sample text? (ynq)
-
- Come to think of it, this might solve the present problems with sci.physics.
-
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