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Re: A proposal to bootstrap Usenet University

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From: Joseph C Wang
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:34
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In article <1992Sep30.135148.14361@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>Is it possible for you to archive all the questions and answers?  I
>can arrange the archive to be put in the UU ftp archive.

It was my intention to do that.  It's very, very difficult to sit down
in front of a blank sheet of paper and write courseware from scratch.
My hope is that if you get a lot of people asking and answering
questions, one will be able to organically "grow" courseware with much
less effort.

>One idea would be to set up the mailing addresses for consultants as
>aliases which would automatically archive the mail and forward it to
>the person answering them.

There's a system called OLC which is used at MIT to process consultant
transactions on their online help system.  It might be possible to
scale it up to handle transactions across the Internet and to have 
a central clearinghouse which automatically routes questions to 
consultants.  
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From: joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang)
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Subject: Re: A proposal to bootstrap Usenet University
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