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- From: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: IRC Service channels.
- Message-ID: <mark.721106434@coombs>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 03:20:34 GMT
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- tel1568@tamuts.tamu.edu (Thomas Edward Landrum) writes:
- >This message is being posted for a friend.
-
- >Well gang, I must offer my most sincere thanks and admiration for
- >those who made #Election such an incredible success.
- >As far as I am concerned this demonstrates the power we have
- >collective access to through IRC. I'd like to see a little more
- >of this kinda thing and a little less of the bot wars, ad nauseam.
-
-
- >Wow, you know what would be COOL? If a couple of microphones were
- >strung up in the chambers of congress and a computer running
-
- Your suggestion reminds me of a service I've been wanting to implement
- for sometime. I have on my desk at work an AAP (Australian Associated
- Press) newsfeed, i.e. an ascii link to the raw news that the newspapers
- then convert into the articles you read. We use it for the students and
- their journalism reporting etc. It's basically the most recent you'll
- get as the radio stations and newspapers all get most of their material
- from this source. TV uses it as a basis for discovering stories.
-
- Subject to the licencing constraints (I dont know what they are, which
- is the main problem so far), I was thinking of a channel where a robot
- simply sat there and pumped the latest news into a channel.
-
- It's possible to distinguish between news subjects such as aus-news,
- int-news and even federal parliament. The amount of data sent to the
- channel would be easily controllable, either by smart software
- abbreviating key phrases or just parsing out articles deemed lame.
- Certainly it wouldnt sit there dumping, more like an article a minute
- with the article being 10-20 lines.
-
- I'd have to get the ok for this from the powers that be because it's
- a AUS$6,000 a year service and it operates 24 hours a day. If I wasnt
- given that permission then I couldnt do it with the feed at _my_ work,
- *but* if anyone else out there has one and is able to offer the data
- then I can send an IRC perl robot to interface the news to IRC.
-
- Please contact me if you have any comments on this.
-
- Mark
- markm@rmit.edu.au <------ Send AAP email to this address.
-