Re: Buying reputations...and turnips

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Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

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Re: Define "signal" and "noise."

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Re: Henry VI and Lawyer-Killing

On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 12:26 PM, A. Melon wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:12:41 +1100, matthew X wrote: > >> "First we kill all the lawyers." Shakespeare.henry the something. > > Falling into camp "I resemble that remark," here's a bit of history on > one > of the worlds' most common epi

Re: signal to noise proposal

[Warning to humor/lexicaly impaired: Use of third person 'you' below] On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ahem, yes I am aware any simple system is easily > circumvented & defeated, but that doesnt imply > that it will be. So are most hard systems also :) > ok, fine, status quo sta

Re: signal to noise proposal

On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 12:30 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:45:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> - posts to the list are like currency. lurkers > > Not a useful analogy. For some people, the more they post, the > lower their reputation falls. A lot of the

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Re: signal to noise proposal

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Re: signal to noise proposal

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Re: signal to noise proposal

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:45:20PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - posts to the list are like currency. lurkers Not a useful analogy. For some people, the more they post, the lower their reputation falls. > - mailing list records # of times someone wrote > a post that was replied to. posts t

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Re: signal to noise proposal

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Re: Define "signal" and "noise."

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: > The real issue seems more properly couched as salience. The blur here causes > conceptual errors, and I would appreciate enlightenment, by way of an > alternative taxonomy and any refs to recent papers measuring the "S/N ratio" > within a channel. There's

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Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

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