Enabling Dissemination of Meta Information in the Usenet Framework

The paper discusses a transparent and flexible way to disseminate meta information within the global conferenci Examples of such information are ratings for Usenet articles or information about the behavior of other users. In describes how the Usenet "overview'' mechanism was modified to disseminate meta information to off-the-shelf U with the modified overview mechanism are discussed by example of two fully working prototype implementation navigation information and collaborative filtering ratings to Usenet clients.