Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!ninja!sys1!hal6000!trsvax!johnm
From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: RFC - comp.binaries.gif
Message-ID: <194300027@trsvax>
Date: 16 May 88 12:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    May 16 07:42:00 1988


I just worry about the amount of traffic such a group would have on it.  Let's
say that 5 or 6 people all decide to put a picture out on the same day.  If
each picture is 60K (a reasonable figure for a good color GIF) we will have
about 300K come by (after uuencoding) in just one day.  This COULD be (I'm not
saying WILL be) a massive burden on the net, especially when it's new and lots
of folks want to put their favorite picture out there for everybody to see.

And what about really big pictures?  I've been assuming that folks would
restrain themselves to pictures with only about 256 colors and compressed in
some fashion (like GIF), after being on the net a while you folks should know
that there are some folks who won't exercise such restraint.  "Oh, and by the
way here's a 1.2 Meg dump from my Ultra Scanner 2000 of a picture of my pet
monkey Richard....  ==== Cut Here ===="

How will we prevent this from happening?  I don't want to lose sites because of
a big fiasco and we're already wasting enough bandwidth with talk.bizarre.  I
couldn't vote for this group until we had some assurance that it wouldn't be
the Moby Dick of Usenet.

John Munsch
Obviously, I'm not speaking for my company.  They have people for that.