jseal – Well, a portion of it. I do think that the Signal/Noise ratio is relevant in this instance.

In information theory, the Shannon-Hartley theorem computes the maximum amount of information (error-free digital data) that can be transmitted over a communication link with some bandwidth in the presence of noise interference.

We’re facing a similar situation here, where packets of data are being passed through a particular messaging system with a seemingly unavoidable amount of noise. The amount of information which may be carried here is more or less limited by the number and size of the packets of useless data.

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