From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54157 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Rychter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: GroupLens, efficient ? Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:53:01 -0700 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065158938 13224 80.91.224.253 (3 Oct 2003 05:28:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 05:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2698@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 03 07:28:45 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5IUe-0003ow-00 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:28:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A5ITg-0001RM-00; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:27:44 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1A5ITU-0001RE-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 00:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from screech.rychter.com (screech.rychter.com [212.87.11.114]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2892F3A004C for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:27:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from tnuctip.rychter.com (unknown [10.197.0.2]) by screech.rychter.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7F34A600 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tnuctip.rychter.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tnuctip.rychter.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h935R1s0008381 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:27:11 -0700 Original-Received: (from jwr@localhost) by tnuctip.rychter.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h934r1Oo008158; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:53:01 -0700 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Spammers-Please: blackholeme@rychter.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54157 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54157 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "Simon" =3D=3D Simon Josefsson writes: Simon> Xavier Maillard 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. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/fQCtLth4/7/QhDoRAuNWAJwMiblJ9d+W94EgAYhu5wqw8uqNbQCfaCOo WOW5cX3TJPK8nkkwQq60q8c= =jWJc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--