[LINK] E-mail features make the Internet more civil place

[Tony Barry]

At 9:41 AM +1100 24/1/2001, Tom Worthington wrote:

>* MOOD WATCH: looks for intemperate language in mail messages. It 
>gives you a warning before sending. Also it displays a rating (of 
>one to three chillies) indicating incoming messages which might be 
>"hot". This works reasonably well, but seems to have the view that 
>sex is bad and violence is okay (the word "sex" in this message 
>earned it two chillies). So far only few incoming Link message have 
>been flagged.

I put in Eudora 5 three months ago. I'm afraid I have trouble seeing 
any great difference between mood watch scores. I could see nothing 
offensive in those messages which rated three chillies.

A potentially more interesting facility is ESP (Eudora Sharing 
Protocal).  A cooperative group can set up a directory on their own 
machine which is "shared". Any change made by one of them is copied 
to the directories of the others. So if you move a file into the 
directory por change one that is already there the members of the 
group will see the changes reflected on their directory. All done by 
email. It's yet another mechanism by which files can be shared 
without requiring a central server. Has anybody tried this?

tony
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