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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > Where's the distinction here?
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> .build.mecha is a subgroup of .build.
Actually, shouldn't houses be pushed to .build.arch?
The more and more I use Lugnet, both through NNTP and through the web
interface, and the entire web in general, the more I realize the
limitations of newsgroups and other topic categorization. The problem is
each of us has different needs for categorization (for example, I'm
happy to look at the occaisional mech, there are applicable ideas for
space ships, and to boot, I actually even built a mech, on the other
hand, I'm quite glad that much of the mech news traffic stays in
.build.mech). What we ultimately need is some way of assigning good
topic keywords to information published on the web, and then good
content indexers to bring that information to us. On top of that, we
need a good way to separate "ooh ahh" discussion, from critique, from
requests for help, from announcements of new content (the last hopefully
eventually not being needed, if anyone, anywhere in the world, posts a
pirate theme related LEGO creation, even if they've never had contact
with lugnet.pirates, the content indexing system along with some kind of
combination of user initiated search, user robot polling, and user
subscriptions should quickly let me know that it's there for my
perusal). I think that will eventually happen, but it will take some
time for the software to be there. It will also probably in part depend
on human tuning of the information, where an automatic indexer will make
a first pass, but then as people browse through things currently only
containing automatic indexing (I could see searchers providing you with
several lists of varying trustworthiness, with the automatic index being
the least trustworthy), they look and say "gee, that site is exactly
what I would like to see on this topic, but hey, it also has an XYZ in
it so let me add that tag" or "gee, that hasn't got anything to do with
LEGO Pirates, I'll ding it's topic rating for that" (so after a while,
the item either moves up in the list or off the list completely). Of
course the author of a page can always add a topic ratings (and you can
bet that if Richard Parsons posts a new page, and rates it as highly
applicable to the "LEGO Pirates" topic, that I'll be looking at his new
creations within a day).
We just need to get the oldest and most powerful parallel super computer
in the world working on the job...
FUT: lugnet.off-topic.geek
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