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Re: Noise and the Nature of Mailing Lists

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Jan 31 02:41:52 1996

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:45:13 -0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May), cypherpunks@toad.com
From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)

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.


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