Re: BosniaLINK (and other unnecessary posts)

[attila <attila@primenet.com>]

attila sez:

    it seems unreasonable to stifle all of the associated political 
posturing and infomercials from our "only natural criminal class" [Mark 
Twain], but I took 10 days of the full list and ran it through some of 
text processing and retrieval routines --80% of the characters delivered 
contain _only_ policy arguments, and another 10% are more or less off the 
mark.  

    No one has time to monitor (moderate) the list to reduce this load
--are we ready to turn that job over to hardwire analysis? [I see little 
value in AI in this case, but I'm sure some will disagree <g>.]

    Let's put it this way: if we were a radio or television station, 
they'd pull the plug for our static or white snow....

    procmail gets rid of Dr. Fred, or even the mention of Dr. Fred, but is
not intelligent enough to sort for the presence of key words from either
side of the fence (you must pass it if there are technical references even
though Bubbha appears in the text). 

   I have more than adequate text retrieval and text syntactic routines 
--is that where we are headed?

On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Anonymous wrote:

> 
> URL: http://www.dtic.dla.mil/bosnia/
> 
>    BosniaLINK Banner
>    
>    Welcome to BosniaLINK, the official Department of Defense 
> information
>    system about U.S. military activities in Operation JOINT 
> ENDEAVOR, the
>    NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. This system is provided 
> by the
>    Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for 
> Public
>    Affairs. All information in BosniaLINK is publicly released
>    information from the U.S. government or NATO headquarters.
>    
>    BosniaLINK contains operation maps, fact sheets, news 
> releases,
>    biographies of key commanders and leaders, and transcripts 
> of
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