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To: Michael Coley who wrote (411)	2/7/1998 11:47:00 PM
From: Bob Hack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32884

Michael, you said: I'm still fundamentally against the idea of filtering messages. There's just not a foolproof way to do it ------------- If someone else filters my messages, without my consent or input, then I too have a problem with that, however if I do the filtering, or it is done with my consent, I just don't understand the problem. In real life we all are continually filtering information,ie the "Remote Control", who we choose to listen to a party and who we tune out. The very act of bookmarking a thread or profile is a filtering function. What's so different about selecting which posts we want read within a thread? Hope you can understand the overriding fundamental issue here of individual choice. Thanks for your input, Bob

To: Michael Coley who wrote (411)	2/9/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Andreas Helke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32884

I have never proposed it but I have thought about the ranking issue before. I think it would be a good idea to integrate the ranking system with the next button. Instead of simply hitting next you would choose among 3 to 5 next buttons which would judge the type and or quality of the message. And I think we have to distinguish between quality and aproriateness of an message. A message could be very interesting but off topic. But probably this is too complicated to integrate it in a working ranking system. Andreas