Re: Identify this piece of hardware

On 1/9/2010 3:31 PM salty@xxxxxxx spake thus:

On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:11:22 -0800, David Nebenzahl
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/9/2010 1:21 AM The Daring Dufas spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

I think there's a small minority of news carriers that strip out "binaries". (There may be a majority of carriers that strip out
such attachments if they are *above a certain size*.)

I saw it just fine with Thunderbird and Eternal September. The belligerents are correct about the good practice of posting
pictures to a free image sharing website. It puts a lot less
of a load on news server's bandwidth and makes it a lot easier
on folks who have a slow connection. It's also better to show
a link to a site than to quote the whole darn page. There is
this one jerk who posts to some of the other groups I peruse
who has an obnoxious signature that takes up a page or more that
he attaches to every post he makes. The guy is one of the few
people to occupy my kill file, not because of topic of his posts
but because of his bandwidth hogging sig.

OK, I follow you, but for chrissakes, you have to admit that my
SMALL attached GIF (3K) is not going to impose any kind of burden
on a news server's bandwidth. As someone else here pointed out,
many TEXT posts exceed that size. (Like maybe your guy with the
huge sig.)

I'm *not* advocating attaching 96K JPEGs to posts in text-only newsgroups ...

I guess you really ARE that dense.

And how dense do you figure that is? Are you saying that a 3K GIF that's smaller than many TEXT ONLY postings is going to cause a major problem with anyone's news server? If not, please tell me how else this could possibly harm you, or anyone else for that matter.


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