Nathan wrote:
>Eric Boyd wrote:
>> I would actually be willing to do that... there are probably many many
gems
>> to be found! However, for the summer I only have a dial-in connection
(at
>> $.075/hour), and I'm not willing to wait, or to pay. If someone would
>> remind me come september, I could start. If I did a hundred messages a
>> day, it would only take me 120+ days... not bad.
hm. you could just download the pages and read them offline...probably fill
up more than one disk.
>> Before I start on such a project, however, I think we should work up a
good
>> frame work for what we want as a rating. For instance, I think some kind
>> of "relevance" rating would be valuable -- to indentify those posts which
>> could be termed "orthdox" virus. (actually, I prefer the term
"orthoprax",
>> which means "right actions", as opposed to "orthodox", which means "right
>> beliefs") Then, an overall quality rating would be good. And, of
course,
>> the final result would be a web page linking to, say, the best 100 posts
>> ever...
I've been thinking of making a list of everyone that posted to Virus, and
their
stances when they joined, as well as when they quit.
>> I think another thing I could do would be to identify those posts which
can
>> be deleted from the archive -- i.e. all those posts saying "take me
>> off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", or all those total quotations of the Virus Digest
with
>> "go away!!" on the bottom.
That's for sure!
>My other idea is to name ratings after actual viruses - ranging from
'wart' or
>'chicken pox' to 'bubonic plague' or 'HIV'
Neat!
CA Cook, LF
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