IUBio

signal to noise on bionet ng's

Matt Jones jonesmat at ohsu.edu
Sun Jan 10 15:12:53 EST 1999


In article <778saf$8ll$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com> ,
Hemidactylus at my-dejanews.com writes:
>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?
>
>

Yes, wield your killfile with impunity, and above all DON'T respond to
useless nonsense, regardless of how much you want to. It just perpetuates
the problem. 

Also, if you notice a thread that contains multiple postings by the same
individual, occurring sequentially as if they are having a dialog with
themselves, steer clear because that's  exactly what's happening.

We can't (and shouldn't) do anything about the noise, but we can
certainly try to increase the signal strength.

Cheers,

Matt Jones



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