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From: abh0@GTE.COM (Andrew Hudson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: GIFs and NASA...
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Date: 24 May 90 13:59:19 GMT
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Reply-To: abh0@bunny.gte.com.UUCP (Andrew Hudson)
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GIF files can be really huge, upwards around 300,000 bytes for
an SVGA with enough color. Files this size are prohibitive to 
post to news, and Since GIF's are valuable to only
a small percentage of the internet community it makes more
sense to archive them for access by ftp or by modem.
People have already proposed a news group for the purpose of
swapping image files and it was deep sixed :-<.

So I would propose that we find 1) someone to digitize the
pictures into GIF's, and 2) someone to archive them so the rest of
us can access them.

Any takers???

- Andrew Hudson
abh0@gte.com