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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: [OT] ettiquite - was gprof with gnat
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On Fri, 03 May 2002 07:22:00 -0600, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Robert Dewar wrote:
>> I find that I bother to look at fewer and fewer CLA threads these
>> days, because so many of them have excessive noise to signal ratio.
> 
> I think you have been saying this ever since I can remember :-)
 

I think there are monotonic increases in noise and decreases in signal
in _all_ newesgroups.  Presumably he can continue saying that for ever.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas

p.s. - ...suggesting something analogous to the second law of
thermodynamics for Usenet...