Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #92
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From: 	"Ficarra, Lou" <lou.ficarra@attws.com>

Subject: RE: Signal/Noise ratio

Date: 	Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:53:17 +0000



And as you know, the greater the S/N, the more information can be sent

on this list!



As per Shannon,  C=Wlog2(1+S/N)



Lou..............who has been guilty of reducing the S/N occasionally.



Cheers!



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>From: 	Frank Potter[SMTP:fpotter@his.com]

>Sent: 	Wednesday, October 01, 1997 6:43 AM

>To: 	Multiple recipients of list

>Subject: 	Signal/Noise ratio

>

>Prompted by an entry from Sonja:

>

>>"Yuppie" was derived for the word "Yippie", the

>>name of a group of protesters that became a

>>media hype during the Demo Convention in Chicago

>>in 1948 ... viz. "weathermen" "Chicago 7" etc...

>

>I am impelled to make two comments.

>

>First, Sonja, you have it wrong - "yuppie" was a phrase coined to describe

>Young Upwardly-mobile Professionals (as if anyone really cared), and

>

>Second, the quality of the discussions here has deteriorated drastically

>over time, just as the volume has increased. This used to be a place to

>trade interesting and sometimes even useful information about Miatas. It

>has degenerated into something considerably less, unless you are interested

>in hearing half-baked pre-college-type BS about gun control, to pick just

>one of an almost infinite number of irrelevancies that have shown up here

>in recent months. Pick your own.

>

>For my money, it has pretty largely become a waste of time - I look at it

>now in digest form and generally don't bother to read any of what shows up.

>It's too bad, because it used to be fun. But then, I guess things change,

>not always for the better.

>

>I'm still around, if any grownups want to stay in touch. But for the rest

>of it, I'm outta here.

>

>Frank (retires, grumbling audibly, into the back of the cave, rolling a

>huge rock into the doorway...)

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