The list has about 900 subscribers, if I remember correctly. If, before posting, we took a moment to ask ourselves, "What are the odds that more than 1% of the subscriber base is interested in what I'm about to say?", the S/N problem would pretty much take care of itself.
-- john, KE5FX (seldom one to follow his own advice, of course...) > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on > Behalf Of Chuck Harris > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 5:59 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Group S/N > > > And by posting this, you (and I) just added to the noise > level of this group. > > Be tolerant, you just might learn something from the noise. > > -Chuck Harris > > Rex wrote: > > I don't post much because I usually don't have much knowledge that might > > add to the discussions. I might ask a question if I thought the group > > was the right place, but not much of that recently either. > > > > A couple years back we would have long threads that were about > > subtleties of the thing being discussed, which may have been excessive > > but were justifiable and in context. > > > > As a casual observer and fan of the group, I have noticed a trend where > > dozens of comments get made on pretty much any topic that gets posted. > > Many of these posts seem to me to be kinda stream-of-consciousness where > > not much is there except a chatty kind of interaction. A bit of that is > > ok in any group, but I miss the days of the high S/N of yore. > > > > So, with the intemperance given me by some alcohol consumption (during > > the Giants WS game) might I implore some of you guys who are frequent > > posters in the last couple of years to consider some restraint on making > > every post that might pass through your brain and just make it if it > > really might add some information that isn't conjecture or chit-chat? > > > > There's fabulous brain power here and I appreciate that, but lately I > > find myself mostly deleting chaff to get to the wheat. Many times I'm > > not sure if I missed something good in that slash and burn. A couple of > > years ago that was less necessary, and (my opinion) I liked it better. > > > > -Rex > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
