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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD
Date: 24 Jun 1995 23:26:15 +0200
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Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote:

>Besides, if the signal to noise ratio (ie: the lack of crap like
>this:) was better on the mailing list, then it would take MORE
>time to read N messages in the mailing list, because there would
>be fewer crap messages that could be skipped!

You have to read a message, at least up to a certain point (like this
:) until you know it's actually crap only (like this :-().
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)