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Old 04-14-2004, 01:54 PM   #5
Kemp
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It's the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule).

80% of any given output is typically generated by only 20% of the input.

So you can reduce by about 80% the amount of junk you read/see/hear/do by totally ignoring 20% of the biggest offenders. I use this philosophy at work and it works great!
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