Nothing like a netcop, eh?
[...]
In my opinion, netcops should swallow their modems, then power-up.
Nothing like a netcop, eh?
[...]
In my opinion, netcops should swallow their modems, then power-up.
Btw, how droll of him to put in a Followup-To line and not
bother telling anyone.
: If you start paying for my feed, you can post anything you want. But
: as long as the cost of your access is subsidized by me,
: I'd appreciate
: if you'd refrain from doing boneheaded things like posting gargantuan
: binaries to discussion groups.
How about you paying for mine, then you can tell me what I can and cannot
post. If you have a sluggish connection, dump it and get a better provider.
The thing is, each newsgroup is allotted a certain amount of space
on the newsserver. Old news gets deleted to make space for new news
automatically. This means that when a binary comes in to a discussion
group, newsservers wind up killing a lot of older articles to make
space for the binary, which is usually huge.
That Tenchi post was 8 parts, each of which was about 900 lines if
I recall right. If you figure that the average post (condensed to the
amount of space it actually takes) is about 15 lines, you are looking
at 60 x 8 = ~480 messages that got tossed early from the newsserver to
make space for the new binary.
There are 34 binaries groups associated with RAA.
alt.binaries.pictures.anime
alt.binaries.pictures.***.anime
alt.binaries.pictures.***a.anime
These can be used for binaries without problems.
Todd.
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Isn't there already a nice hierarchy devoted to binary postings?
There's no need to post binaries in the discussion groups, which
are often frequented by people without high-bandwidth
connections. Anyway, what I'd like to see is people putting up
for FTP whatever binaries they wish to make available to the
world and then posting pointers to the location, instead of
posting the binary. Those who couldn't FTP could then ask for a
uuencode|mail or for a friend to FTP it for them. There are also
the various ftpmail servers here and there.
And when people like you clog even ISDN connections to our ISP's?
Will you tell us all to get T3's to our homes? Or will
cablemodems do for the time being? If attitudes like yours become
much more popular, no amount of bandwidth will ever be enough.
And buy a new OS as well, when no amount of hardware can solve
minor problems like exhaustion of the lower 640KB or of those
tiny 64KB resource heaps. :-(
[chomp]
Why is this crossposted to such different newsgroups?
Followups to alt.retromod.
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>>If you start paying for my feed, you can post anything you want. But
>>as long as the cost of your access is subsidized by me, I'd appreciate
>>if you'd refrain from doing boneheaded things like posting gargantuan
>>binaries to discussion groups.
>The truly boneheaded thing is paying for metered Inet access.
I take that back. I just stopped into alt.guitar to double check.
It's a 60-part(!) binary. 900 lines in each message.
Go check that out before making up your mind on binary cancels.
Maybe you'll want to download it and play it thru your soundblaster.
Mark G.
> Todd.
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Additionally, as I'm writing this if you look at the volume in this group,
even with binaries they would never equal that kind of volume.
: >for a good ISP connection, fast modem, heaps of memory, and a modern
: >offline reader with which I can select what messages I receive and
: >those I do not wish to receive - but the lowest common denominator
: Isn't that the crux of it. I can't believe it's 1996 and there
: are people who download entire newsgroups -- *bodys* as well as headers,
: over slow, metered modem connections.
I hate to jump into this, but continental US online service folks WAKE UP!
Not everyone has T1 to their door even if they can pay for, and there are
folks who download news and mail at off hours.
NPS
(Nothing personal) Is anal-retentive a word that English-speaking persons
like to use?
No, it's easy for those with _knowledge_ to rule you. Because USENET is
founded on anarchy, without censorship and other things that come with
control, you have to know how things work and how to do things to have
power.
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Newbiehood is not a period of time, it's a way of life.
http://www.sn.no/~balchen/
ftp://ftp.sn.no/user/balchen/
>>If you start paying for my feed, you can post anything you want. But
>>as long as the cost of your access is subsidized by me, I'd appreciate
>>if you'd refrain from doing boneheaded things like posting gargantuan
>>binaries to discussion groups.
>The truly boneheaded thing is paying for metered Inet access.
Hell, I remember when the Usenet backbone consisted of uucp sites calling
long-distance cross-country at 1200 bps. We now have an infrastructure
capable of handling much more traffic, and we got it by paying good money
for it. It's overloaded enough as it is, too, and it's not going to get
any better unless people start paying money to upgrade it.
Sorry, you don't get something for nothing.
--scott
distance call
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Ever hear of "economies of scale"?
Bandwidth becomes cheaper as it becomes more available.
Perhaps you learned economics on a soviet toilet-paper line?
Net access is constantly becoming cheaper and faster, the exact
opposite as you claim.
Get a clue.
And learn to only download the articles you want to read!
Sheesh.