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The netnews hierarchy encourages a very high level of pre-sorting among postings. Killfiles can supplement this, inefficiently. The newsreader 'strn' is the current state-of-the-art in complex killfiling. To go beyond this will probably require that posters 'tag' keywords, and also that a system for message-rating be agreed to.
The next stage in the evolution of word processing must be to treat words, phrases, concepts, etc. as objects.
Interface design might be transformed by analysing the tasks the
software will be used for, and having the software use this analysis
to anticipate the user's needs. (Current software offers instead
many 'micro-commands' that the user must combine into sequences,
or at best into 'macros'.)
Some specs for an object-oriented word processor are available at ftp.mcs.com/mcsnet.users/jorn/decentwrite.txt
Jutta Degener's (Germany) specs for a dream email-reader
Don Hopkins' very excellent archive of user interface materials
A very interesting look at spatial metaphors in interface design
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