> Brian D Chase wrote:

> (That thread just refuses to die, despite not actually being useful > > for any purpose.

Agreed, but no comms channel is completely noise free - Hence the need
to narrow the bandwidth with "matched filters" like procmail.

One of the early radio pioneers, Eckersley, said: "The wider you open
the window, the more the dirt blows in". Quite relevant decades later.

Just my 2 pence worth of noise for the day...

Chris