1996-01-31 - Re: Noise and the Nature of Mailing Lists

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From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:51:31 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Noise and the Nature of Mailing Lists
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At 22:56 1/30/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

>And remember, it's a whole lot easier using filters and reading tools to
>reduce the volume of messages on an active group than it is to get an
>inactive group up to critical mass!

That is true. There is a lot of noise on this list, but there also is a lot
of signal. My growing killfile is doing a rather fine job of separating the
two. The rest can be weeded out manually in very little time.


-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.







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