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From: fleischer%xanadu.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (Bob, DTN 381-0895, ZKO3-2/T63, BOSE A/D)
Date: 8 Jul 88 12:31
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Subject: social aspects of mail filtering -- FYI

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IOSG::TYLDESLEY                                      22 lines   7-JUL-1988 16:15
                         -< < I want to be Important! >-
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    Ethical consideration: it is very likely that our group Secretary 
    will get tagged as 'Unimportant' in everybody's rule base, because 
    of the nature of the messages that it is her job to send out (e.g. 
    "Car Lights on", "Roger's leaving, please contribute").
    
    This came to the fore when Dave Matthews was looking over my shoulder,
    and saw messages from him ranked as 'Unimportant' ;-). I wonder if there
    needs to be some way that users accompanied by a 'U' qualifier
    could thereafter become hidden fields, unless explicitly requested
    by the owner of the filter that they be displayed? e.g. 
                               
    	User 1				U
    	-----------------------        ---
    
    "Press Gold (whatever) to display Unimportant users" 
     
    	Dave Matthews			U
    	-----------------------	       ---
          
    Regards
    Dave T