At 03:40 PM 9/16/95 -0400, Ian wrote:

I've been very impressed with the signal/noise ratio on this list. In fact, people often put [NOISE] in the subject line to flag trivial content. This ratio will certainly go down if we go to a newsgroup.

I have a group of friends who get forwarded the "best" of the Cypherpunks list. The signal to noise ratio is high enough that I have to be careful how much I forward lest I get complaints at the volume of what I forward. Turning this into an alt group would destroy that.

One of the main benefits of Usenet is that anyone can _post_. One of the main detriments is that _anyone_ can post.

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