Re: wheres the atn train

[usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael)]

atailby@optusnet.com.au (Andrew Tailby) wrote in
<3a4dfbbf$0$7492$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>: 

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I have seen virtually tens of thousands of photos on the net. None of them 
have come from binaries newsgroups. All of them have come from webpages. A 
lot of them have come from a web server without a webpage, where the files 
have been uploaded and have direct access (e.g. www.gunzel.net/scans)

Webpages aren't hard to make, and to dump a file into a webserver that 
allows directory listing (most do) is even easier. Much to the point that 
I've even found posting binaries in the past more cumbersome.

I personally wouldn't feel rewarded if I posted a binary to a group only to 
have it stripped by about 40% of the worlds news servers immediately, and 
over 95% of the worlds news servers within a week. If I post an image to my 
website, I can give the URL to a non-binary newsgroup, where article 
retention is far longer on most news servers. This also gives people who 
don't use newsgroups (I'd say that most people who use the net don't even 
know what a newsgroup is, let alone how to access them) an opportunity to 
view the image.

THEN there is behind the scenes... Sysadmins hate binaries. Binary 
newsgroups are a waste of bandwidth to most sysadmins. 

Please don't take this with offence Andrew, but this message is aimed also 
to all who view and post to binaries newsgroups. 



Michael

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