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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by trylist on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:45PM (#12860702)
That won't work because you'll be adding noise to your own data. You'll have trouble searching through your own data-sets for "real" stuff. If you do something to designate what's real, you're just back to square one.
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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by jt2190 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @09:53PM (#12860992) 

  > That won't work because you'll be adding noise to 
  > your own data.
What does "noise" mean in this context?
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Re:On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email by trylist on Thursday November 03, 2016 @12:13PM (#12865253)
If real data is signal, then fake data is noise.
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