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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: moderated sci.physics
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 22:42:18 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- In article <Bxpx3C.BDB@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- >What does moderated actually mean? Is it not a euphemism for censorship?
-
- Si, senhor.
-
- >I agree that this whatever you call it is filled with noise but that is
-
- No, a newsgroup is filled with signal; noise is
- what one makes of it.
-
- A moderated newsgroup is filled with noise; that is,
- signal with filtering creating a different signal and
- thereby a difference signal which is the noise itself.
-
- I'd rather wade through a dozen utter wackos than lose
- one Galileo.
-
- This is a non-issue.
-
- --Blair
- "At least we don't have to fast-
- forward through the commercials."
-