>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
 Simon> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
 >> Hello,
 >>
 >> Today, just another question (silly one ?). When reading another
 >> time my Bible a.k.a. the "Gnus Manual" looking for nothing in
 >> particular, I faced the GroupLens feature of Gnus.
 >>
 >> As presented in the manual, it sounded quite great to me but as a
 >> unexperienced user of this, I just wanted to know how efficient it
 >> was ?
 >>
 >> First, is there any people using it ? And then how do you feel with
 >> it ? Are the predictions efficient enough to be taken seriously in
 >> consideration ?

 Simon> Quoting the section:

 Simon> NOTE: Unfortunately the GroupLens system seems to have shut
 Simon> down, so this section is mostly of historical interest.

[...]

This is indeed rather unfortunate -- I had tried GroupLens back when it
still worked and it was quite good. It's a pity the project has gone
commercial (I think it became FireFly, which later became part of
Microsoft).

Perhaps we should revive the concept and apply it to, say, GMANE?

--J.