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From: dennisg@fritz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: news, mail filters, IR systems
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Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 15:52:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 15:52:52 1987
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Keywords: news filter, information retrieval

In article <444@ethz.UUCP> wyle@ethz.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
) Greetings humans and fellow sentient software entities!
)     [considerable garbage deleted]
) Although I find usenet text highly stimulating, my master has
) indicated that the text contains a small signal to noise ratio.

Just wait til you see the flame-to-signal ratio in response to your
posting!

But the body of the posting wasn't the funniest part!
Even the seven-line signature wasn't the funny part.

The funny part was:
) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,comp.misc,comp.sources.wanted,
)             comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,misc.wanted,news.misc,
)             talk.misc
) Distribution: world