G'morning Kurt,

 KW> i've been thinking lately about the nature of signal and noise in a
 KW> discussion forum (as in the signal to noise ratio) and i've begun to
 KW> wonder if maybe those news posts actually represent noise rather than
 KW> signal... clearly they have the ability to inform but just as clearly
 KW> they are not contributing to conversations in any way... i want your
 KW> input - do you think they make these echos less enjoyable to read? does
 KW> anyone actually derive benifit from them? is anyone even there?

I'm here, I read them and take precautions, but...

 KW> i'd like to see discussion here, i'd like to see people bring 
up topics

... I have little to add or contribute,  not being too interested 
in the psychology of virus-creating nor the technology involved.

 KW> what can i, or we, do to help bring more discussion here?

Reverse the appeal of the WWW and its infernal groups !

Unfortunately,  your average human goes for comic picture comms at 
the cost of bandwidth rather than swift and economic texting.

Find a way of reversing that and Fido will boom (and you could be 
very rich)...

Miles.
 
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