SETI public: indistinguishable from noise

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Ms. Bailey,
        A recent press release from your office
<http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Dec04/r120204> cites
an excellent article co-authored by a member of your faculty, titled
"The Physical Limits of Communication, or Why any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from noise." I thought I should inform
the authors (through you) that the subtitle of that article, which is
generally known as Factor's Corollary to Clarke's Law, was first
published by The SETI League more than nine years ago, both on its
website and in its quarterly newsletter, SearchLites, and should have
been attributed to SETI League president Richard Factor. Please see
<http://www.setileague.org/editor/magic.htm> for the first known use of
the phrase "indistinguishable from noise" in this context.
        Respectfully,
                H. Paul Shuch

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