Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!rrichter From: rrichter@rphroy.ph.gmr.com (Roy Richter) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: ftpmail data Message-ID: <55361@rphroy.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 91 16:31:53 GMT References: <4139@motcsd.csd.mot.com> <1991Jun7.144706.11588@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@rphroy.UUCP Reply-To: rrichter@rphroy.ph.gmr.com (Roy Richter) Organization: GM Research, Warren, Mi Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: link.ph.gmr.com In article , garym@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Gary Murphy) writes: |> |>The only hope I've seen so far is to store on-line images |>as very low-quality JPEG files and make those interested in obtaining |>the real image arrange the transfer themselves. Unworkable, though. Where are you going to put them? FTP site? Anon UUCP? Mail them out? All of these will overload a particular site. There are large number of people who want these. USENET may very well be the most efficient method of propogating them. -- Roy Richter Internet: rrichter@ph.gmr.com Physics Dept, GM Research UUCP: {umich,cfctech}!rphroy!rrichter