On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:46:28 -0700, John Smith wrote:
Dave:

With enlightenment comes freedom...

Indeed.

Freedom to exchange data without restriction is a tool all educated peoples
would seek.

But we use shared resources provided by others. Restrictions are
essential if the resources are to be successfully shared

How some can argue that placing limits and short comings on the internet is
some kind of "enlightenment" is beyond logic, the two conflicting concepts are
ironic to attempt to even fit together...

Ah, but there is no such thing as an Internet without limits. You are
living in a make-believe world if you think so.

Newsgroups are just a 7 bit data forum, methods exist to fit 8 bit data in such
a forum...


Clue: Usenet is *not* the Internet. Repeat that to yourself 100 times.

Don't open posts with encoded binary if it is some kind of threat to you. That
is your option...

The people who make their servers available to carry Usenet are the
ones who are making the rules. If their rules are violated, they
either block the originating site from their collective servers
(Usenet death penalty), or they retroactively cancel the posts of an
offending individual (spam canceling, based on the BI of a post, for
example). Others, such as groups.google.com, simply don't allow
binary posts on their servers in the first place.

So, John, it is the option of the people who own the servers to cancel
or block your posts, and there's nothing you or Dave can do to change
that. If you want to know what the server owners are thinking, go to
the newsgroup 'news.answers' - a group that a newbie like yourself
should read before continuing to make a fool of yourself on Usenet.
In news.answers you will find one or more FAQs which outline the
reasons that binaries in non-binary news groups are not allowed.

Again: Usenet is not the Internet. And Usenet is not a democracy.