At 7:55 PM 1/27/96 -0500, JMKELSEY@delphi.com wrote:
The best solution has always seemed to me to be one of these three:
a. Tags appended to notes/posts, from various reviewers, digitally signed and otherwise coded to allow intelligent filtering, or
b. Electronic distributions of reviewers' evaluations tagged to notes in some simple way. (I.e. give each note or post a unique ID which appears in the message.) Then, a smart newsreader/mail program sorts the notes accordingly, or
c. The reviewer reads the group/list, and rates posts according to some useful criteria. He then resends it out to his users, filtered as desired. (CP-LITE seems like a very early version of this.)
d. The "V-Chip" device makes a network query to the selected rating service to ask for a rating. What happen when the rating service is unreachable is just one of the many parameters that the parent needs to set. (If designed right, no parent could use it, but its availability would still stop the adult censorship croud in congress.) This approach as the advantage that the communications costs accrue to those using the feature and not to everyone else. A disadvantage is that each content item needs some ID. Bill