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From: davidg@janus.uucp (David Gaertner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: GIF files?
Message-ID: <23920@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 5 May 88 21:51:36 GMT
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In article <10724@steinmetz.ge.com> (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>In article <23873@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> (David Gaertner) writes:
>>In article <10680@steinmetz.ge.com>  (bill davidsen) writes:
>>>Could someone mail me info on where to get GIF files other than
>>>Compuserve? As is BBS names/numbers or names of groups?
>>>-- 
>>>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
>>
>>Right, Bill,  BBS's are the place to get the .GIF files.
>
>  Major lack of communication here... if I told you that information you
>wanted was "in a book" would it help you? Not only did you not help, you
>didn't mail.

OKAY OKAY OKAY!  Let me try again.

I was trying to say to our Usenet community that I felt that BBS's (and
perhaps Compu$erve and GEnie, if you like spending your money on
downloading what $3.95 for a Penthouse will get you ;-) are the places
from which one should retrieve GIF pictures.  I was glad that you were
making the effort to find phone numbers of those BBS's.  When you find
some, please post them.  I was not trying to imply that you were doing
something wrong; I was *agreeing* with you.  Furthermore, I don't know
offhand any phone numbers of BBS's that hold GIF pictures.

When I got one of the GIF viewers, I was glad that a poster also posted
a sampler.  What I was afraid of was that EVERYONE would post their
favorite or (even worse) their entire libraries of GIF pictures.  I
don't think that filling comp.binaries.ibm.pc with pictures (some of
which are copyrighted, but that's another issue) is a proper use of
network bandwidth.  Granted that moderation will soon prevent that from
occurring, but we don't have Mr Dhesi up and running as the moderator yet.

And, lastly, I tried to keep my first message short.  Obviously, it
could have used a little more elaboration.  Apologies to those
affronted.  (Why didn't I just follow my .signature comment?)

    /              /		  	David Gaertner  
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    /              /		  	David Gaertner  
 __/ __. , __o  __/ 	...ucbvax!janus!davidg, davidg@janus.berkeley.edu
(_/_(_/|_\/ <__(_/_  "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."