From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49753 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raja R Harinath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: GroupLens (gnus-gl.el) Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:18:24 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4nlm161ks2.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044145039 25541 80.91.224.249 (2 Feb 2003 00:17:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18f7p0-0006dp-00 for ; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:17:18 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18f7qL-0000cb-00; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:18:41 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:19:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA09164 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:19:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 64796 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2003 00:18:25 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 64790 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2003 00:18:25 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu (128.101.35.202) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 2 Feb 2003 00:18:25 -0000 Original-Received: from bose.cs.umn.edu (bose.cs.umn.edu [128.101.35.195]) by mail.cs.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEC311302 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:18:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by bose.cs.umn.edu (Postfix, from userid 818) id 419093206; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 18:18:24 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 01 Feb 2003 17:22:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49753 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49753 Hi, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> The ideas behind GroupLens seem useful, even though the service has >> shut down. Is there any possibility of something similar to GroupLens >> coming back to Gnus? > > I think GroupLens is a really good idea, and it would be nice if > something like that were to make a return, but it's a major project. > Especially the bits where you have to moderate the moderators, so > that the scoring pool isn't poisoned. But, GroupLens is not supposed to be a moderation system. It is supposed to find people who appear to have opinions similar to yours, and weights the score based on that "closeness" criterion. It is thus less likely to be poisoned -- unless you are poisonous too :-) - Hari PS: Even though GroupLens is/was a project @cs.umn.edu, I'm not part of that group -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu