From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 08:53:41 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Are we gatewayed to Usenet
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Clark Reynard says:
> Never.  I don't _ever_ want to see this made into a
> 'semi-private' mailing list.  Extropians, for example,
> does this, and it's ended up being an incestuous,
> closed group, with extremely low signal-to-noise
> ratio; as the same groups of people chatter and 
> blather about the same subjects to no end.

The participants would say that they have a very high signal to noise
ratio. The fact that you didn't like the signals and would prefer
different ones means you were not suited to the interests discussed on
that list, not that the experiment has not been a success.

Perry