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From: ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles)
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Subject: Re: Images Group
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Date: 13 Nov 89 19:16:53 GMT
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In article <1228@atha.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>Show me *ONE* site that provides uucp access to images. One of the
>main reasons for proposing the images group was that it would allow
>sites without an Internet connection to access things like the
>Voyager images. I've sent numerous queries to people about getting
>these images via uucp. No way. I ended up getting them through email
>from someone at an Internet connected site.

As a different poster has said, the reason most sites don't want images
transfered over news is that each image uses up a LOT of bandwith and disk
space for a minimal return.  This is sad since I have an Amiga and would dearly
love cheap access to various images (I could get them from CI$, but would
prefer not to pay that much), but I cannot see forcing others to pay the large
costs images would generate.

The various special purpose binaries and sources groups do not fall under this
ban:  Although a given site may need only the 'ibm.pc' groups, they exchange
courtesy with other sites (for providing the 'ibm.pc' groups in the first
place) by also carrying all the other groups.

Show me the potential for "mutual courtesy" with respect to the proposed images
group, and I may change my opinion.

And to answer your "Show me" question: Site "uunet" carries images that are
available via uucp.  I don't know if they have the voyager stuff, but I do know
that they have 'facesaver' images.  (Digitized images of people who showed up
at some *nix conference, or other.)  The problem with this is that you have
to be a "uunet" customer before you can use uucp.
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