WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio?
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WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio?

 
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:31 am    Post subject: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
The comp.arch signal/noise ratio appears to have fallen off
a cliff. IIRC, things were pretty reasonable about three or
four months ago. What the heck happened, and is there any
way to filter out all this garbage?

Hrmph.
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David Kanter
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:56 am    Post subject: Re: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
iain-3@truecircuits.com wrote:
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The comp.arch signal/noise ratio appears to have fallen off
a cliff. IIRC, things were pretty reasonable about three or
four months ago. What the heck happened, and is there any
way to filter out all this garbage?

I don't really know. However, part of it likely has to do with the
fact that I think there are less new posts to comp.arch now than there
were a year ago. That would lower the signal part of the equation...

While I am not sure how many people are using the WWW to read
newsgroups, I do, and I have noticed that Google's new interface lacks
many features that I liked in the old system.
Quote:
Hrmph.

I know...

David
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Hank Oredson
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:56 am    Post subject: Re: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
<iain-3@truecircuits.com> wrote in message
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The comp.arch signal/noise ratio appears to have fallen off
a cliff. IIRC, things were pretty reasonable about three or
four months ago. What the heck happened, and is there any
way to filter out all this garbage?


Same problem on many of the sci.* groups.

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Del Cecchi
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:32 pm    Post subject: Re: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
iain-3@truecircuits.com wrote:
Quote:
The comp.arch signal/noise ratio appears to have fallen off
a cliff. IIRC, things were pretty reasonable about three or
four months ago. What the heck happened, and is there any
way to filter out all this garbage?

Hrmph.

I have considered your question and, upon reflection and imho, the

answer falls into a couple categories.

1. There have been a few threads, especially involving games, that were
significantly crossposted to a fairly eclectic assortment of groups. I
don't know if this was deliberate trolling or not.

2. There has been a gradual decline in etiquette across usenet.

3. Current events provide no compelling topics. Itanium is fading from
view, Alpha is gone, Power has been out for some time, Opteron has too,
and things like the new video game console processors are not disclosed
yet. So we are reduced to arguing about clustering or hardware
checksums or whatever that 128 bit addressing thread is currently about.

4. Some people have perhaps been less active of late for reasons like
holidays etc.

But it will get better. ISSCC will have the dual core Itanium, Cell,
Blue Gene/L, and a new SPARC, along with graphics stuff and the quad
8way vliw from Fujitsu (paper 10.7) intended for unknown apps.

So come spring things will be better.
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mas
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:39 am    Post subject: Re: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
It was better before when the latest post was displayed as that kept
the threads active. It's too many clicks now to see what the latest
post is. Although the new formatting looks nicer, this poorer
presentation lets it down
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Andrew Reilly
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:04 am    Post subject: Re: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:39:22 -0800, mas wrote:

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It was better before when the latest post was displayed as that kept
the threads active. It's too many clicks now to see what the latest
post is. Although the new formatting looks nicer, this poorer
presentation lets it down

Google? That isn't the only way to read usenet, you know.

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del cecchi
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:55 am    Post subject: Re: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
"mas" <mas769@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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It was better before when the latest post was displayed as that kept
the threads active. It's too many clicks now to see what the latest
post is. Although the new formatting looks nicer, this poorer
presentation lets it down

Switch to Thunderbird
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Guest
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:00 pm    Post subject: Re: WTF happened to the signal/noise ratio? Reply with quote
iain-3@truecircuits.com wrote:
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The comp.arch signal/noise ratio appears to have fallen off
a cliff. IIRC, things were pretty reasonable about three or
four months ago. What the heck happened, and is there any
way to filter out all this garbage?

Hrmph.

with the holidays and all i think some people have been getting out a
bit.
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