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From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Images news group
Message-ID: <346@scorn.sco.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 21:23:52 GMT
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Reply-To: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
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news.groups's own paul@manray.sgi.com (Paul Haeberli) said:
-On the subject of an Images news group:
-
-I think that if people limit the size of their images to 50 kbytes 
-to start out with, this will encourage people to work on better 
-and better image compression techniques.  How about Hi-res
-luminence and low res chroma?

Does this mean that you'll be moderating the newsgroup and rejecting
all postings greater than this size?

-Its interesting to compare traffic on comp.graphics to net.sources.unix:
-
-	comp.sources.unix:     ~317000 bytes per day.
-	comp.graphics: 		~37836 bytes per day.

It's more interesting to look at applicability; given the history of the
net, a majority of the people on the net will have more use for unix 
sources than for pictures; which comp.graphics isn't about.

People will use whatever bandwith is available...and then some.  If it's
not moderated it will be abused.   So who's going to do it?

-- 
        David Bedno aka davidbe@sco.COM: Speaking from but not for SCO.

		   The keyboard's been drinking, not me.