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From: roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: USA Flag GIF images
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Date: 15 Feb 91 22:04:08 GMT
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Another way to look at this situation is this:

	A picture (GIF image) is worth a thousand words.
	
	A thousand words is about 5K or 6K bytes.
	
	So, since the images I posted totaled roughly 6KB,
	I didn't really waste any extra net cost.  :-)

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People have suggested that better ways of making images available are:
	- post to comp.sources.x
	- post to alt.pictures
	- announce, and make available via ftp.

Each of these has its problems for certain people; no clear cut answer.

In any case, I agree that it's important that we discourage people from
posting *huge* images to comp.windows.x.  (Personally, however, my
definition of huge is 100K Bytes, not 5 or 10 K Bytes.)

Roger