Richard Baker wrote:
> In any case, killfiling someone is not silencing them - it's just
> deciding not to listen to them. It seems to me no worse than, say, not
> reading any of the messages on alt.music.spice-girls because I think
> they're highly unlikely to say anything of interest.
>
> Rich, who is intrigued by the idea of treating all mailing lists and
> newsgroups as a single open publishing system by using filters based on
> trust-graphs.
I've been trying to work out the details of this. So say I set
my filters to send me anything you write. Then when you do post
about physics on alt.music.spice-girls, I can read it. But wait,
I'll have to do a Google search, hopefully finding in their archives
that you've been posting there in the first place.
So one should be posting in about the right place, or it's
going to be difficult to find. This gets back to the Wilbur07
situation, etc. Maybe we should split our lists into a number of
sublists, so that people ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H an automatic system could
direct their posts to the proper sublist. Then one could subscribe
to and filter each sublist individually.
We could have Brin-L, for on topic posts. And Brin-L-net-clan,
for off topic discussion. And Brin-L-fight-club, for those long
acrimonious debates. And Brin-L-total-nonsense, for Wilbur07.
---David
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