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1. It is difficult to determine the geographic relevance of free-food or reuse emails.
2. It is often difficult to determine the content of the posts without extensive searching.
3. It is hard to tell if a food post has been claimed by other people.
4. There doesn't exist a predictive model to help people looking for free food or items determine the most likely locations and times for free item posts.

Target Users

1. Posters
   1.  Motivation is to get rid of cruft or food quickly due to circumstances (e.g. "We don't have the Bush Room reserved past 10!")
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2. Casual reusers
   1. Incentive to use is to acquire specific items or classes of items
   2. Searches for items
3. Competitive reusers
   1. Incentive to use is to get an edge on competition by getting served metadata in at-a-glance form
   2. Looks at live-updating, general map
   3. Uses type tagging
   4. Needs lots of efficiency

Both of the All of the above groups exist in a community which is relatively proficient in computer technology.

Proposed Solution

Let's not get ahead of ourselves there, pardner.