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From: mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Mark M Mehl)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Comp.graphics.images
Message-ID: <1959@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 02:26:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: atanasof.1959
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davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
|news.groups's own joe@vixen.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) said:
|-tmb@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
|-> I think it is wrong to mix a newsgroup for program sources and tools
|-> with a newsgroup for images.

|-I agree with this.

|Likewise.

Likewise again.

|-> Furthermore, I fear that USENET doesn't have the bandwidth to transmit
|-> images.

Yes.  Please appreciate that someone else is paying the phone bill to
transmit all these images to thousands of machines.  Earlier, someone
suggested to simply setup an archive that others can FTP from.  This is
certainly the most sensible solution, particularly for large images.

I appreciate that all sites (although they should) can't FTP.  These
sites should get a friend (on Internet) to simply e-mail the files
directly to them.  Also, if these sites simply dialed directly into the
archive and used Kermit to download what they wanted, this would be
better than posting these sources all over the world.

|-How about 2 newsgroups.
|- One for image conversion, utilities whatever; one for actual images.

|How about this.  Comp.graphics is used for utilities.  Comp.graphics.images
|is used for the pretty pictures.

If you're proposing a source group, put "sources" or "binaries" in the
group name so everybody knows what it is.  Isn't this the obvious thing
to do?  Something like:

   comp.binaries.graphics    --or--    comp.graphics.binaries

A "source" group by any other name would simply be misleading to
potential users.
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