Re: wheres the atn train

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Andrew Tailby" <atailby@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Excuse me but some times i have been able to see some wonderful pictures
> taken by fellow over seas rail people.
> If u were to get rid of them people like me would not be able to see such
> wonderful pictures and from time to time i have seen some australian stuff
> on the rial pic news group.

Are you unable to access the WWW through your web browser?

> Even if us or eroupean isnt ur type of train some of the shots that have
> been taken have out done some australian railfans that have taken pics and
> this includes my self.

So post them to a free website (such as Geocities, etc) and then post the
address in here.

> At times this is the only way that some of my pics have been seen around
the
> world by fellow rail fans because i dont work with slide film or they are
> just plain old shots that have been taken a millon times before or i
havent
> had the prints back in 24 hours to get them down to digest or other
railway
> mags none of my stuff is printed only 2 or 3 times has anything of mine
> gotton printed.

That last sentence should be taken out the back and shot, whatever it was
supposed to mean.

> To thoes out there may be u should take a look at what people around the
> world have taken because a lot of the time it is way better than what i
have
> seen here in nsw or even in victoria.

Still no justification for binaries groups.

> May be if there was an australian news group for rail photos that is one
way
> people would be able to see my stuff because im still yet to learn how to
do
> a web page

You do not have to do a webpage, all you need to do is upload the pic, and
most of the sites automate it so that even an idiot can do it.

> and for the most of it i wouldnt have the time to sit down and
> design one or even mantian it where as the news group would be a good idea

Not once you understand how Usenet works, and the demands that are placed on
bandwidth and traffic costs for the ISP's concerned/

> where i can show my pics to the rest of australia and thoes as well over
> seas who may wish to look at them.

And much easier to do via the WWW - and better as well, as most news servers
expire their binaries fairly quickly (within 24 hours for some Australian
ISP's) which means that your pics are only accessible for that very limited
period. Posting them to a web site means that the picture is accessible for
as long as you wish to make it accessible, and you also get traffic stats
telling you exactly how many people have looked at it, something which is
impossible with a newsgroup.

Dave

> Andrew
> "Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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> > johnmc@topend.com.au (John McCandless) wrote in
> > <3a499136.0@news.topend.com.au>:
> >
> > >>> How about we start an aus.rail.pictures NG instead of using the US
> > >>> one.
> >
> > >> The aus.* hierarchy does not have any binaries groups.
> >
> > >Also, a lot of ISP's (like mine for example!) don't list binary groups
> > >because of the bandwidth involved....
> >
> > I'm just glad that Optus@Home strips binaries sent by dropkicks who send
> > them to non binaries groups. O@H should kill the binaries groups too,
and
> > every ISP should follow. Binaries newgroups are outdated and a waste of
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > M. (Back in Mexico :(( )
> >
> > --
> > To email me, just remove ".spam" or else your reply gets directed to the
> > bit bucket.
> >
> > Whip ME, Beat ME. "Windows ME".
>
>