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From: denbeste@bbn.com (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Neptune Voyager Pix directly viewable on Amiga
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Date: 1 Sep 89 19:20:46 GMT
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In article <464@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>
>    Is there any chance of seeing these in c.binaries.amiga ? I would love to
>see them but do not have ftp access. It seems to me that the net load would
>not be that great since the over-whelming amount of ftp requests that are
>flooding the ftp sites already.
>
>    Hope someone can help
>    Monty Saine

Sorry, you're not talking about the same thing. The FTP access is being done
through fast packet switch networks. comp.binaries.amiga is distributed largely
by slow dialup lines. If compression followed by uuencoding is a wash, then
we're talking about a megabyte and a half, which would have to be distributed
by 9600 baud (or 2400 baud!) modems.

This would take at least 4.5 hours per hop at 9600 baud.  The last time
anyone did something like this, we got disconnected from a bunch of sites.
Let's not repeat the mistake, shall we?

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