As in, *all* of what follows. (Please take the hint...)
Wrote George:
> 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
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>
> 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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