From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:52:08 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: improving cpunk S/N via grouplens/filtering
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>>>>> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Z Nuri <vznuri@netcom.com> writes:

 [GroupLens]

Vladimir> http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/grouplens.html

Vladimir> is anyone here familiar with this project? what do you think
Vladimir> about how effective it is?

I like the idea, but they've never covered anything other than Usenet,
and newsgroups I don't read.

The little feedback we've gotten after putting it in Gnus indicates
either that it is not useful, or that it probably hasn't reached
critical mass yet.

I proposed GroupLensing this list to Brad early this year, but he
never followed up on it.

To the luser who unsubscribed last week after complaining about his
wimpy mail program, I would add:
Gnus runs on Emacs 19.34 which fully supports Microsoft Windows and is
available as a precompiled binary, so there is no excuse for using
mail and newsreading software on that platform without threading,
sorting, kill files, etc.  Add in the mailcrypt package and an
up-to-date copy of Raph's remailer list, and you have basically point
and click access to remailer chaining and PGP.
-- 
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