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From: cjl@ecsvax.UUCP (Charles Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: GIF files?
Message-ID: <5036@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 01:39:25 GMT
References: <23873@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Summary: Oh, yeah?

In article <23873@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, davidg@janus.uucp (David Gaertner) writes:
>  I see the .GIF pictures as an incredible waste of net resources.

I rather like seeing some new files on the net.  Veteran BBS dwellers
may be 'tired' of the GIF format pictures, but many of the recipients
of this network have just now gotten the newly posted GIF viewers, and
just like that computer is useless without software, GIF viewer is
useless without ITS software.  Agreed, I don't want 100 different views
of Ms Tiegs' (sp?) navel, but let the kids get their feet wet.  THEN
they can find a BBS or join Compu$erve and "GO PICS" where there is
some 2000+ GIF pictures...

So, post a FEW more - not too many.  After all, two-bit opinions like
yours and mine are a waste of bandwidth, too. Right, David?

Charles Lord
cjl@ecsvax.UUCP/BITNET/WORLD