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I've been looking for some info I recall reading sometime ago on dealing with
encoder noise. Seems I fairly often look for some old information and I've
found that the search function on yahoo is substandard to say the least and I
was wondering if anyone knows of a place to download all the messages so I
could search on my computer? I've found some programs to do this but with
the limits that yahoo places it would take a very long time to download all
these messages.

Thanks,
Al