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signal to noise on bionet ng's

Krakatoa stephan at nospam.ucla.edu
Tue Jan 12 13:15:20 EST 1999


In article <916140507.636497 at mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Brian Sandle
<bsandle at southern.co.nz> wrote:

> Matt Jones <jonesmat at ohsu.edu> wrote:
> : In article <778saf$8ll$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com> ,
> : Hemidactylus at my-dejanews.com writes:
> 
> : 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.
> 
> Not really. Often no reply means more info could produce results.
> 
> You are saying that the author should write one long article and put 
> everything in, rather than give a bit which might be sufficent to get the 
> necessary reply without using so much bandwidth as the long article?
> 
> Brian Sandle
> 
> : We can't (and shouldn't) do anything about the noise, but we can 
> : certainly try to increase the signal strength.

Yeah, I think he means when people are replying to themselves over and
over again....



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