Dave Korn wrote: > On 23 May 2007 13:19, Eric Blake wrote: > >> [ ... ] 8:1 ratio in bytes of fluff to content > > > I prefer to express that as an SNR of -18dB :-) Oh, no, please no! That suggests that mailing list noise is best expressed on a logarithmic scale. The implications of that are too horrible. Say it ain't so!