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- Friday, March 18, 2005
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An analysis of Usenet..
"Consider the usenet as a kind of asynchronous network. Consider the participants as nodes that connect and disconnect at random. Now consider the result. The value has *NOT* increased along with the number of nodes. Instead, the SNR became very small, and my belief is that the current SNR is negative, at least on average. There is still some good information to be found in pockets, but there is plenty of misinformation, too, and *LOTS* of noise.
I think the decisive factor is that the fanatical propagators of misinformation must be aware (at some level) that they are fighting against reality--but their response is to shout louder and more frequently, simply repeating their misinformation. Are they hoping that lies repeated enough times will somehow become true? Or they just hope to bury the truth they hate?"
Very interesting.. From Slashdot, a post by 'Shanen'
