"Painius" wrote in message ...
"WinField" wrote...
in message news:0kGJa.68115$Dr3.46650@fed1read02...

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.

Winfield

Winfield, you bonehead...

Bandwidth is just one part of it. The problem seems to be that
some newusers are too dumb to read up on UseNet etiquette
before they post. UseNet is organized a certain way. And every
ISP warns their newusers to read up on "netiquette." But do they?

Every netiquette brief i've read has something in it about not posting
images to text-only groups. So either newusers don't read them, or
they need to improve their reading-comprehension skills.

Hold on a minute there, Sparky. Binaries are just fine in any Usenet
group as long as they aren't prohibited by an individual group's official
Charter. The notion of "text-only" groups exists only in the minds of
some news admins who for the last few years have been trying to
isolate binary posts to the alt.binaries.* hierarchy.

In the case of alt.astronomy there is absolutely nothing in the Charter
that prohibits binary posts. See:
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control...t.astronomy.gz

RickW