Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!memphis!rvs From: memphis!rvs@uunet.uu.net (Ronald V. Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Microsoft/Adobe/PostScript news Message-ID: <1991Jun15.131933.489@memphis.UUCP> Date: 15 Jun 91 13:19:33 GMT References: Sender: rvs@memphis.UUCP (Van Simmons) Organization: ThaumaWare Lines: 37 In article crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes: > Hey, do people think that NeXT attachments are acceptable around here > (as attachments to USENET comp.sys.next news postings, that is, for > things like diagrams)? > Only if the attachment is not over 30-40 KB in size. Some of us after all pay for our news feeds by the byte, a fact that is often forgotten by people who incur no direct or variable costs when using the net. As a case in point, a while back someone (who apparently had just discovered that their cube could make arbitrary noises) was crazy (and rude) enough to post a rather large .snd file. I wouldn't object to an interesting sound file, but from where I sat this one was pretty ordinary. Hopefully this guy got a solar flare's worth of flaming. However, if you have something that might be of general interest and that can best be expressed by posting in a graphical format (say eps), I'd like to see it. The whole idea of UseNet, from my understanding, is to facilitate communication of ideas (or white noise that looks like someone's idea of an idea), so go ahead and communicate. I suspect that a lot of people out there who read this group do so on NeXT machines using Newgrazer (like I am now), so compatibility shouldn't be an issue. For those who read news using rn on a vt100, they're no worse off than they were before, so why not post, assuming that you follow the caveat above. > Gary -- Ronald V. Simmons memphis!rvs@uunet.uu.net -- Ronald V. Simmons memphis!rvs@uunet.uu.net