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signal to noise on bionet ng's

Richard Norman rsnorman at mw.mediaone.net
Sat Jan 9 20:49:10 EST 1999


Over the years, the noise level has varied tremendously.
RIght now, it is pretty high.

There have been times when there was actually some
real science being discussed here, usually someone
with a technical query and knowledgeable people
giving technical responses, or a student/lay person with
a more general query and knowledgeable people
giving more tutorial responses.

Perhaps, someday, we could get back there.

Hemidactylus at my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<778saf$8ll$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>I posted on this n.g. a couple months ago and valued the level of
signal to
>noise that resulted (on that thread). I got a lot of good input (wrt
LTP),
>even the criticisms from LeFever, in retrospect, were good. I was a bit
more
>critical of LTP as a result. Thanx everybody.
>
>I've pretty much lurked for a while here, since this is a bionet group
and I
>feel a certain level of respect is required. Relevant references are
good
>too.
>
>During this lurking, I've noticed a major problem with signal to noise.
Are
>there any solutions for this? Is this happening on all bionet groups?
Do most
>regulars just wield their killfiles or whatever?
>
>Metadiscussion isn't always appreciated by ng regulars, but relative to
some
>of the tangentialism and "hot air" here, I'm not too ashamed.
>
>Scott Chase
>
>
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