Behold, Scott Dorsey scribed on tube chassis:

Straydog wrote:
Not all ISPs set all of their newsgroups to receive or propagate or
allow downloads of attachments from news posts. There was no image on my
news server for either of your messages. My ISP has set an error message
that says it allows binary attachements only in binary newsgroups (FYI)
if I try to post a message with an attached file to a newsgroup not set
to accept attached files.

It is VERY, VERY rude to post binaries to discussion groups. This is
about the most offensive thing you can do on Usenet. As a result, a lot
of backbone sites (including the one upstream of me) dump all binaries
in discussion groups.
--scott

I have no binary access, nor do a lot of users. I for one am greatful fo
binary posts in thse groups.

The picture came through fine.

--
Gregg "t3h g33k"
http://geek.scorpiorising.ca
*Ratings are for transistors, tubes have guidelines*

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:56:43 -0700, Gregg wrote:

Behold, Scott Dorsey scribed on tube chassis:

Straydog wrote:
Not all ISPs set all of their newsgroups to receive or propagate or
allow downloads of attachments from news posts. There was no image on my
news server for either of your messages. My ISP has set an error message
that says it allows binary attachements only in binary newsgroups (FYI)
if I try to post a message with an attached file to a newsgroup not set
to accept attached files.

It is VERY, VERY rude to post binaries to discussion groups. This is
about the most offensive thing you can do on Usenet. As a result, a lot
of backbone sites (including the one upstream of me) dump all binaries
in discussion groups.
--scott

I have no binary access, nor do a lot of users. I for one am greatful fo
binary posts in thse groups.

The picture came through fine.

In which case, the picture should have been uploaded to the
poster's website and a link provided. Are there reeally that many ISPs
who don't provide at least a few meg for this purpose?

It's also a courtesy to those with low-speed connections who
read text-only groups. If they feel it's worth their line time to pull
the binary down using the link, they're free to do so, but not forced
to do so.

In article , Gregg wrote:

I have no binary access, nor do a lot of users. I for one am greatful fo
binary posts in thse groups.

The reason that you do not HAVE binary access is that your news admin
has tailored off the binary groups because he doesn't have the disk space
to carry them.

When people start posting binaries to disucssion groups, that disk space
gets used anyway. And if it gets bad, he'll start tailoring off the groups
that are full of binaries first, if he's like me.
--scott


--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On 6 Oct 2005 08:34:27 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

In article , Gregg wrote:

I have no binary access, nor do a lot of users. I for one am greatful fo
binary posts in thse groups.

The reason that you do not HAVE binary access is that your news admin
has tailored off the binary groups because he doesn't have the disk space
to carry them.

When people start posting binaries to disucssion groups, that disk space
gets used anyway. And if it gets bad, he'll start tailoring off the groups
that are full of binaries first, if he's like me.
--scott

For some reason your original post didn't show up on my server but
these did.

It was an accident, mistake, whatever. I so seldom post pictures that
I didn't even think about what I was doing until after the fact. It
was too late to cancel when I did realize it and posted it to the
binaries.

But feel free to crucify me. That's what some people like to do on
Usenet.

On 6 Oct 2005 08:34:27 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

In article , Gregg wrote:

I have no binary access, nor do a lot of users. I for one am greatful fo
binary posts in thse groups.

The reason that you do not HAVE binary access is that your news admin
has tailored off the binary groups because he doesn't have the disk space
to carry them.

When people start posting binaries to disucssion groups, that disk space
gets used anyway. And if it gets bad, he'll start tailoring off the groups
that are full of binaries first, if he's like me.
--scott

For some reason your original post didn't show up on my server but
these did.

It was an accident, mistake, whatever. I so seldom post pictures that
I didn't even think about what I was doing until after the fact. It
was too late to cancel when I did realize it and posted it to the
binaries.

But feel free to crucify me. That's what some people like to do on
Usenet.