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andrew woods
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06-26-2003 09:14 AM ET (US)
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it's not a robot. it's a user agent.
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| mrm
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06-25-2003 06:53 PM ET (US)
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Newsmonster is not compatible with Multizilla, which makes it a non-starter for me. I need my tabbed browsing.
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| Michael Bernstein
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06-25-2003 06:50 PM ET (US)
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| secret agent toast
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06-25-2003 02:50 PM ET (US)
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IMHO 'Wuffie' is a lot cooler soundin' that 'Strahk'. How do you even pronouce that? Straw-K? STR-Awk?
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| Stefan Jones
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06-25-2003 02:31 PM ET (US)
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AFAIK, Whuffie is Cory's baby, although there's at least one obscure fictional precedent.
Jack Vance wrote a short story, "The Moon Moth," about a story about a society where people dealt in a reputation currency of sorts, "strahk" (as I recall it was called). It wasn't quite as unitized or commodified as whuffie. Your strahk determined what goods you could obtain, how fancy your house boat was, and etc. You could increase your strahk through proper behavior and good works, and lose it for being a jackass.
Vance's twist: Everyone in the story wore a mask. The masks you could wear depended on your station / strahk. Slaves had plain black cloth covers; high-strahk people wore elaborate hero's masks.
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| BenGarvey
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06-25-2003 12:41 PM ET (US)
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No line, there's enough room for everyone to get a peck.
Seriously, I installed NewsMonster (WinXP, Mozilla 1.4 RC3) and it was pretty nice, although a little too much for my RSS needs. I would have liked to be able to put all the headlines for my subscriptions in one big list or filter out descriptions from the headlines pane (maybe you can do all this, but definitely not easily). I tried to uninstall with their instructions and ran into problems, forcing me to find a usenet post on how to do it manually.
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| Strontium_Dog
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06-25-2003 12:25 PM ET (US)
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Is there a waiting list to kiss ass on here or can we just dive in?
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| superlib
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06-25-2003 11:22 AM ET (US)
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heh.. wouldn't it be funny/ironic if whuffie became a widespread system of ranking and then developed into a sort of quasi-currency, all because Cory wrote such an amazingly awesome book? Like self-fulfilling prophecy or something.
By the way, if you haven't read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom yet, do so. Its REALLY good.
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06-25-2003 10:27 AM ET (US)
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I'll tell you if you give me some.
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| chrise1234567
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06-25-2003 09:54 AM ET (US)
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