MoodWatch, based on rhetorical theories developed by David Kaufer, chairman of the English department of Carnegie Mellon University, employs a very fast and efficient algorithm to identify words and phrases that might be offensive. As such, it's efficient at flagging potentially offensive messages, but it is up to the user to decide if a message 'deserves the chilies.'
This is from a release announcement of Eudora, a bygone, once-popular e-mail client. (Kudos to Qualcomm to keeping this online 22 years later!) "Deserve the chilies" refers to how the client would display one to three chili pepper icons if it felt your e-mail was rude or offensive. (Software used to be whimsical.)
There was a white paper that described how they trained the feature on postings from the Usenet group alt.flame. Also, the source code to Eudora is now available from the Computer History Museum, including MoodWatch: https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-sou...
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This is from a release announcement of Eudora, a bygone, once-popular e-mail client. (Kudos to Qualcomm to keeping this online 22 years later!) "Deserve the chilies" refers to how the client would display one to three chili pepper icons if it felt your e-mail was rude or offensive. (Software used to be whimsical.)
There was a white paper that described how they trained the feature on postings from the Usenet group alt.flame. Also, the source code to Eudora is now available from the Computer History Museum, including MoodWatch: https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudora-email-client-sou...