Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: pgFoundry)

On May 20, 2005, at 11:43 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Actually, when BZ sends you mail, it's acting on choices that you  
>> have made,
>> or someone at RedHat has made for you. You have a lot of control  
>> over what
>> it sends. You want all the email? Tell BZ and you should get it.  
>> By contrast
>> with these fine-grained controls, a mailing list offers you one  
>> choice:
>> subscribe or don't.
>>
>
> Right, if you classify the information coming in, you can set controls
> over who sees it.  What we don't do now is any kind of classification.

This may be a bit off-the-wall, but I recall Joel Spolsky recently  
writing about using Bayesian filtering to classify mail into groups  
other than spam/ham. I wonder if there's any use for something like  
that in this case.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogBugzII.html

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com