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This paper describes a different type\r\nof collaborative filtering system in which people who find interesting\r\ndocuments actively send \"pointers\" to those documents to their\r\ncolleagues.  A \"pointer\" contains a hypertext link to the source\r\ndocument as well as contextual information intended to help the\r\nrecipient determine the potential interest and relevance of the\r\ndocument prior to accessing it.  A preliminary version of our system\r\nhas already proven easy t o use, with people using it to \"bookmark\"\r\ndocuments, send pointers to their colleagues and create \"digests\" that\r\ncombine pointers with original text. Based on our experience we\r\ndiscuss the benefits of this form of filtering as well as its\r\nlimitations.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaborative filtering is based on the premise that people looking for information should be able to make use of what others have already found and evaluated. 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