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From: gbell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Gregory Bell)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Sci.electronics is deteriorating!
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Date: 3 Dec 90 02:46:25 GMT
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I am posting this to hopefully remedy a poor sig/noise ratio here on
sci.electronics.
 
Sci.electronics should be scientific and about electronics, no?  It
should not have postings about things for sale, or any of the following
types of posts:

>I will be traveling to another galaxy in the next millenium and am
>interested in picking up a small hand-held cold-fusion unit.  I
>will need it to overthrow the Cantel network on one of Candromeda-7's
>outer moons.  Is there anything special that I need to be aware of when
>I'm transporting the cold-fusion unit?

Nor should sci.elec have posts like "I have a product that was
featured in the Nov. 1989 Radio-Electronics and I was wondering what the
connector does".  PLEASE check your local library since you have the issue
reference!

I'm sure I'm not the only one that's noticed there have been very
few responses recently, and mostly new posts.  I attribute this to the
fact that the real gurus who (used to?) frequent sci.elec are tired of
the noise.  In order to make this section useful, we need to eliminated
questions that can be easily answered elsewhere (databooks, libraries, manuals).
 
In case you're wondering what generated this post, I just read
through 170 articles, and for the first time, found nothing of use.
 


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