GroupLens

[David L Leppik <leppik@cs.umn.edu>]

Over the next few day's I'm going to be updating the GroupLens support
in Gnus.  It looks like the main difference will be that connecting is
done first through the GroupLens Name Server (glens) rather than
directly to the Better Bit Bureau (or glurb, GroupLens Rating Burea;
we got in trouble with another BBB).

There may be some other minor changes in the protocol, though it's
pretty much the same.  We'll have support for both average and
personalized ratings, and the glurb reports back which is which, but
I'm not sure yet how (or if) to report that to the user.

Very soon we'll have another GroupLens trial up and running.  This
time we have funding to keep it going for at least three years.  We'll
have average ratings for comp.*, soc.*, talk.*, misc.*, and a few
others.  (Alt.* is a bit too big, at least at the moment.)
Personalized ratings will appear for some newsgroups, and ultimately
we may find a way to automatically switch personalized on and off
based on cost/benefit.

I have gnus-5.4.46, and plan to send you diffs, unless there's a
better way to do it.

	-Dave

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