>>> davisn at mailandnews.com 09/12/02 11:29PM >>> >As to noise-to-signal ratio: >1) < does not imply noise In this case, yes, it does. We have already read the crap that came before. It also exists in the web archive. >2) The correlation between signal strength (i.e., meaningfulness) and >signal length (i.e., number of lines or character) is not 1. With those definitions of signal strength and length, perhaps not. But perhaps not everyone would agree with those definitions. >As to trimming: yes, I should have trimmed some of it. Yes, you should have. Do it next time, please.