Signal (text being replied, interesting)
Noise (old text already read and useless)
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: ghoti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2000 11:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Signal to Noise Ratio
hi
sorry er what do u mean by noise. i thought e-mail was digital.
is it some physical thing with lots of interference and white/black/pink
noise
etc or is it just junk.
alex
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Could I just politely ask (seeing as you've all just gone balistic about
> attachments) if people could develop just a little more netiquette and
> reduce the amount of noise in their e-mails. That last one had one line
> of information in 85 lines of resent text. So that puts the signal at
> just over 1%.
>
> Slug is a fantastic list full of useful info, please don't let it go
> the way of so many other lists I've unsubscribed from because the noise
> just over ran the signal.
>
> (I go away and hide now, just having added even more bytes worth of noise)
>
> Pete.
>
>
>
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