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From: peter@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Peter Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: comp.graphics
Keywords: sgi, irritating
Message-ID: <990@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 89 15:39:23 GMT
References: <10432@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: peter@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Peter Schroeder)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <10432@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
butterwo@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Jeff Butterworth) writes:
>What is Paul Haeberli from SGI doing?  People have been talking intelligently
>about the pro's and con's of posting images to comp.graphics.  The reason for
>this is that it might BOTHER some people.  I myself am a big fan of computer
>generated images and save every one that he posts, but geez!  Cool it until
>the news group decides where (if anywhere) to post these things!

I second this opinion. I must say it is rather rude to preempt people
talking about this by just posting.

I thought the point made by someone about the problem of newsfeeds to
other machines taking 8 hours via 2400 baud was very important. One aspect
that I did not think about before was raised then as well. If you have
limited disk space you will need to expire newsgroups earlier if fat
postings are in them. In other words: These postings are a drag on a
community wide resource!

On the other hand someone mentioned that a posting on the net would be
much better then 100 people in europe trying to each individually get a
given image over the atlantic via uucp. Well, if it is that important maybe
someone over there (and other continents, I suppose) could set up an
archive site.

Peter
peter@media-lab.media.mit.edu