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From: mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: comp.graphics.images
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Date: 20 Nov 89 04:50:39 GMT
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Reply-To: mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman)
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I think anyone can guess there is a lot of images waiting to be sent
when (and if) comp.graphics.images is finally formed.

I think the group may need a "modulator" more than a moderator for its
first 6 or so months of operation - to act as a throttle and to prevent
duplication.  After that, just cut it loose.

For statistics purposes, I have 28 GIF of images of all sorts of
things.  All are from various BBSs.  They total 2.5 million bytes - I
would be confident quoting an average of 100K bytes per image (a little
high but not much).

Perhaps someone can look at the USENET stats and pick a monthly budget
for the group (i.e. what is a reasonable number of 100K byte images per
month to ship over USENET?).

Maybe we should just have an archive somewhere and the newsgroup is
only used for posting the most popular/interesting/requested image of
the day/week/month?

... just some of my thoughts.