macholz on film

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:17:11 +0000, MrNightguy wrote:



Because newsgroups are text-only. The underlying distribution
mechanisms were never designed for attachments.

There are better ways to disseminate pictures. Please use them.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

you still didn't answer my question. Why can some post attachments here and
others not?


The people who might post attachments here shouldn't be doing it, this is
a text only newsgroup. Those who do it are breaking net protocol. There
are binary groups to post images or attachments to.

A long time ago, long before you had heard of the internet and
newsgroups, people agreed that binary postings (which tend to be large)
would be accepted only in the alt.binaries hierarchy of newsgroups.
This would give systems the option of accepting or rejecting such
postings, depending on their own individual circumstances (network
bandwidth, disk space, etc.), while receiving the newsgroups they
wanted.

News servers that conform to this gentleperson's agreement will discard
binary postings outside of alt.binaries. Similarly, news readers that
are correctly written will refuse to post binaries outside of
alt.binaries. However, some news readers are written (and used) by
buttheads who don't understand basic netiquette.

Post pictures in sci.astro.amateur all you like. I won't see them. Lots
of people won't. If you want your pictures seen, use other methods.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte