RE>>Filtering messages                       96/10/4

Hi,

I simply delete everything from George. I dive for more than 20 years and I
could see many accidents. The best way to get something wrong is to be so
aggressive as George. Diving is first of all IQ level and not aggressiveness.

Laszlo Abel - CMAS Instructor - Laszlo.Abel@CE*.CH*

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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Rick Fincher wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Several people have posted lately commenting on the fact that George's
messages 
> often contain pearls of wisdom gleaned from hard won experience, but
frequently 
> contain diatribes filled with scatalogical references and little or no 
> information that furthers their knowledge of diving.
> 
> If you are like I am you have a limited amount of time to read email and
would 
> like an automated way of separating the wheat from the chaff so that you
don't 
> spend a lot of time manually sorting the messages out by reading through
them 
> all.
> 
> A simple kill file will prevent all of George's mail from getting through,
but 
> that also eliminates all the useful info.
> 
> I pondered the problem for awhile and analyzed some of George's messages and

> came up with an algorithm to do the job in an automated fashion.
> 
> The general idea is to scan the message looking for key phrases. These
phrases 
> fall into four basic categories. These are:
> 
> Denigration
> Homophobic
> Hot Button
> General
> 
> The Hot Button phrases get the most points because they are most likely to
get 
> George's blood pressure up and set off a tirade.
> 
> Create a file on your system for each category and put the known phrases
into 
> the proper file. So far I have:
> 
> DENIGRATION:
> bone smuggler
> stroke
> suck my dick
> SMD
> shut the fuck up
> stfu
> dumb fuck
> 
> HOMOPHOBIC:
> anus lapper
> transformer
> 
> HOT BUTTON:
> butt mount light
> Genesis tanks
> square battery case
> prismatic battery case
> Dacor Scooter
> magnetic switch
> breathe the short hose
> 
> GENERAL:
> sushi
> Lucys
> knee pads
> pet the pony
> 
> Your filter program simply scans the mail message for the phrases in each 
> category and assigns a point value to each. If the points racked up by a
message 
> goes over a preset value it is put in a hold file for later review.
Sentences 
> with more than one phrase in them get extra points.
> 
> As George comes up with new phrases or as you tire of reading the same old 
> flames every time some new guy comes on the list and posts a message like:
> 
> "I'm having some problems butt mounting my light and was wondering if..."
> 
> Add the appropriate phrase to the proper file and you won't be bothered with
it 
> any more.
> 
> At first I broke each phrase down into nouns and adjectives but after
further 
> thought I decided that it didn't really matter whether you were an "anus
lapping 
> bone smuggler" or a "bone smuggling anus lapper". If the root form of each 
> phrase is stored in the files your pattern matching software uses, you can
catch 
> either form. For example "anus lapp" will match either the noun phrase "anus

> lapper" or the adjective phrase "anus lapping".
> 
> One problem I had was with phrases having double meanings. Some examples
are:
> 
> butt mounter
> weenie hoover
> short hose
> 
> A "butt mounter" could go in the Hot Button file as one who butt mounts
lights, 
> or it could go in the Homophobic file as one who mounts butts.
> 
> Similarly a "weenie hoover" could be simple Denigration as one who sucks a
lot 
> of air on weenie dives, or in the Homophobic file as one who sucks weenies.
> 
> Also a "short hose" could be someone who either breathes the short hose or 
> someone with a short penis.
> 
> It is difficult for an automated program to determine which meaning these 
> phrases have, but in these three cases it didn't really matter because
either 
> definition was equally bad. Just be sure and put each phrase in only one 
> category so it won't be double counted.
> 
> Since I'm in a UNIX environment I used a simple shell file with awk and sed
to 
> do the pattern matching but you could use your favorite programming language
or 
> database to do the job or even macros in a word processor using its "find" 
> command.
> 
> I'm able to read through techdiver mail much more quickly now, and if it
appears 
> I have missed a message of substance I can retrieve it from the hold file
for 
> review.
> 
> By tuning the point values you set for each phrase you can filter out the 
> messages that annoy you 90% of the time while rarely missing a good one.
> 
> If I missed any good phrases please post them to the list.
> 
> Please direct flames and hate mail to /dev/null.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Rick
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Richard Pyle
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