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Looks like we're being listened to
In article , JennyC
writes The WWW as a whole is well down on the list of reliability, as is UseNet. (There's very little quality control on either.) Some bits are good, others are nonsense, and one has to be able to tell the difference. But HOW ?? I don't see that there's a difference in principle between evaluating information on the Net and elsewhere, but the Net has a greater proportion of more outright malicious, fraudulent or dishonest material than most other media. Google evaluating quality information InterNet gives a long list of pages on how to evaluate information on the net. (Of course, there is the question as to how to ascertain which of these are reliable. :-) ) But there probably better than an attempt by myself to crystallise the unformalised processes I practice, and anyway university librarians are a more authoritative source on the topic than myself. See also my "Bulletin Board Bestiary" page (semi-humerous) at http://www.meden.demon.co.uk/Articles/bestiary.html for various sources of noise, as opposed to signal, on discussion groups. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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