Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: References:, and the E (eradicate) readnews key Message-ID: <606@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 02:20:18 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.606 Posted: Mon Feb 13 02:20:18 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:32:46 EST Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 23 after some study, i found that when i went through net.followup, i spend time 'n'-ing follow-ups to dull subjects such as what does the word foo mean? (DONT ASK!!!) of the 30 articles posted one day, 28 of them were References to subjects i already 'n'-ed! (the other 2 new articles were 'n'-ed too...) what i am thinking of building as an E key. when you E and article, readnews will automatically 'n' any articles which Reference the E-ed article. if folks were encouraged to put the Reference line in the news header message, as most of them do now, then this method would work better. readnews would need to keep a per-newsgroup database of eradicated topics. References which were not hit for say 14 days (i.e., subject died off) would be automatically removed from the database. Q: - is the Reference field a good indicator, or should some system also keep track of the subject and look for Re: foo subjects? (i think not) - what method of storing/fetching the eradication info be used? - has this been done, or planned to be done soon? chongo/\EE/\