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zik@bruce.OZ (Michael Saleeba) writes in article <2182@bruce.OZ>:
:    
:    What I _really_ need is a news program with a few simple extended features.
:    For example:
:    
:    vn -busy
:    
:    	This would make the news program automatically selectively discard
:    	most of the postings. The first pass would discard postings from
...    
:    vn -bored
:    
:    	This has the opposite effect of the -busy option. It actively
:    	creates new news using the content of each newsgroup as a
:    	database. This should be easy in groups like comp.sys.amiga
:    	where they just keep asking the same questions over and over
:    	and ... A travesty generator could be used on groups like

Wait for the next 95Mhz 80986 connected to a neural network NuBus card
before you start...

Anyway, there's a simple and neat solution to all this, that actually most
of the newspapers use. Editing.

Those newsgroups that are moderated, i.e.  edited by a group of people,
contains far less noice than the totally open ones.  I predict that
there will always be a mix of both moderated and unmoderated groups.  So
it's up to everyone to choose, read the filtered moderated groups, or be
brave and read the unmoderated ones. 

Unfortunately the newsgroups here in Oz are small in volume, but with
alt.  feeds now in Oz each one of us could see the future. 

Kent

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