Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!tektronix!reed!alexis From: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: glossary of usenet terms Message-ID: <1117@reed.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 13:30:16 EST Article-I.D.: reed.1117 Posted: Tue Mar 19 13:30:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Mar-85 00:28:19 EST References: <235@rtech.ARPA> Reply-To: alexis@reed.UUCP (WOULD YOU PUT YOUR NAME HERE?) Distribution: net Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 16 >There has been some discussion lately about the high "signal to noise" ratio >of USENET. ... To help solve this >problem, I have started a glossary of USENET terms. Heavens forbid that a high signal-to-noise ratio should be allowed to persist! (Which reminds me of the professor who described the Griffin, Reed's mascot, as "The mythical defender of ignorance..."). -- _______________________________________________ alexis @ reed ...ihnp4!{harvard|tektronix}!reed ...decvax!tektronix!reed ...teneron!reed