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beavith wrote:
BEAUTIFUL! what kind of rig do you have?
maybe i'm selfish, but i don't have a big problem with bandwidth
(earthlink newstest with up to 3 months backup) or download speed (DSL
and Cable) so, while i'm only one guy, the odd picture is OK by me.


It's definitely OK by me, also.
I pay extra for my bandwidth, and the convenience of seeing a
beautiful picture here & now is what bandwidth is all about.

I don't understand something. My newsreader shows the size of the
message in the header listing. Are the lo-bandwidth users too dumb to
see the message size and stay away? If they must catch a glimpse of
the text, can't they push the STOP download button?

Ah, I do understand. Human nature. Logic has nothing to do with it,
the whiners have to have their cheese.

It's not just a question of bandwidth, but the way Usenet is organised,
and in particular the way ISPs organise the space they allocate to
different newsgroups and different types of group.
Also, some people have systems that download the whole file without
actually "looking" at it.
But did Jim actually post his picture on alt.binaries.pictures.astro? It
would be most welcome there. And if he's reading this, start the subject
line with ASTRO: because most people have their readers set to ignore
anything that doesn't start with ASTRO:. Keeps out the spam.
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