From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11055 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: UI issues for searching news groups Date: 25 May 1997 02:31:30 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Message-ID: Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.100) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150828 28006 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ding-Gnus Mailing List Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21862 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 20:00:33 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA07529 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 20:00:18 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA28746 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 21:59:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 02:31:35 +0200 Original-Received: from naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.111]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id CAA11097 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 02:31:33 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id CAA09549; Sun, 25 May 1997 02:31:32 +0200 Original-Newsgroups: comp.theory.info-retrieval X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.52/Emacs 19.34 Posted-To: comp.theory.info-retrieval Original-Lines: 32 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1444 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11055 [[ Mailed copy of posted news article -- I find most people like this. ]] Hi there, I've been thinking about searching news groups and mail folders. In particular, suppose I've already got some way to search for relevant messages, then how do I present the ranking list to the user? I'd like this to be integrated with the mail/news reader. One alternative would be to present to a user a list of message summaries, sorted by relevance. This would be the traditional IR way of doing it. But it interacts poorly with news groups (and mail folders) because typically each message is part of the thread, and it is likely that the user will want to read other messages in the same thread after having selected a retrieved document. A second alternative would be to use the built-in scoring mechanism of the newsreader to do this. By scoring I mean the following feature that is supported by some newsreaders. One can specify certain criteria for messages to be more interesting or less interesting than others, and in the overview display of all messages in the newsgroup, these messages are indicated, by color coding, say. This would make it simple to read the other messages in a thread but it would provide less of an idea of the ranking list to the user. Does anybody have suggestions on what to do here? Maybe somebody has already come up with a great interface that one could look at? kai "very naive w.r.t. UI issues" -- Unix is user-friendly, it's just a little picky who to be friends with.