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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle (Nexus))
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,alt.sex.pictures
Subject: Re: JPEG compression
Keywords: JPEG, standard, GIF
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Date: 15 Jan 91 19:41:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jan15.061755.24549@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mfr3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Matthew F Ringel) writes:
>A couple of days back, someone posted to alt.sex.pictures, with a picture that
>was in (a uuencoded form of) JPEG compression.  I downloaded the program used
>to compress gifs like that, and I'm impressed (I've reclaimed at least 2.5 
>Megs so far).  Does anyone think that this could become one of the new 
>standards for posting to alt.sex.pictures?  Everyone seems to complain about
>	Questions? Comments? this seems like it might have very interesting
>possibilities.
>							-Matt

First:  This should have been posted to alt.sex.pictures.d  Thank you.

Second:  There is a group of people (gathered from a.s.p and comp.graphics)
who are working on their own versions of PD software to handle jpeg files.
They all got together sometime around last November (can't exactly remember 
when) with the intent of making jpeg the standard for archiving and transfer
(ie posting).  This has been well documented in several newsgroups.

Btw, I expect their version to be what will become the standard, for a couple of
reasons.  
  1: Several well know big names like Jef Poskanzer of pbmplus fame, David
Read who volunteered to moderate a newsgroup for all types of images (haven't
seen much discussion lately, when's voting start?), someone from Stone Soup
Group (I believe Lee Crocker who wrote Piclab, but not sure).

  2: It will be public domain (actually, more free-ware along the same lines as
the X windows standards or FSF Gnu copy rights) and therefore free (the Image
Alchemy posted to a.s.p is $80 for registration, and is cripple-ware).

Anyway, I think I'm going to wait a while before I start switching my 40Megs or
so of .gif files over to anything else.

Just a novices opinions.
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