I was more interested in crunching the archives to extract and condense
the archives based on topic, to see how (or if) the prevailing opinions
on any topic changed over time. This is difficult unless you have a tool
that allows you to deduce the real topic of conversation by checking the
context of the keywords using nearness operators, among others.
At 03:33 PM 5/10/98 +0100, red_mist wrote:
>In message <3.0.3.32.19980510004533.007df530@mail.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com>
>, Dan Plante <dplante@home.com> writes
>>Well, I FTP'd over, couldn't find anything that resembled the yearly
>>archives, even a zip file. I also tried Teleport Pro, but something
>>makes it choke when it tries to follow any links past
>>http://virus.lucifer.com/virus.95/date.html. I was thinking WinGrep
>>might be a useful tool to use on it, but I can't use it remotely.
>>
>>David?
>>
>>Dan Plante
>I think it would be extremely difficult to collect all the archives and
>rate them individually. The best way to do this would be to have some
>sort of system that would allow a person to pick out an artical that
>(s)he really liked and then everybody else would be given the opotunity
>to vote on the artical (I think it would be best to do this via the web
>site rather than e-mail - you could end up with too much e-mail)
>
>The articals would then be rated and the best one's could be displayed
>in a sort of web site veiw. Also it might be wise to have some sort of
>limit on the ammount of articals 1 person could nominate or vote on.
>--
>Only the weak are blind when the mist descends
>red_mist
>
Dan Plante