I subscribe to an email discussion list for foxhunters. Like almost any other open discussion forum on the Internet, it occasionally suffers from a low signal/noise ratio. And at other times, it’s just plain information overload; it’s all relevant, but just too much. A subscriber recently questioned whether it has become too big to be useful. I need to write a longer and more specific response for that list, during breaks in Runaway Bride. (I know guys aren’t supposed to like Julia Roberts, but I think she’s .. umm . I mean, the ads had horses in them.) But the question really is one that pertains to the Internet in general, although it’s really not a new question. As it continues to grow chaotically and exponentially, it becomes more difficult to extract pearls from the vast quantities of rubbish. New approaches spring up to try to keep it manageable, but they’re soon overwhelmed. I remember a few years ago, one of my co-workers compared Usenet to CB radio. He said there are a whole lot of people out there who have nothing to say, but now they can say it to everybody. And CB radio died out.