Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rochester!ritcv!ritcsh!dani
From: dani@ritcsh.UUCP (Dani Kadoch)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: RFC - comp.binaries.gif
Message-ID: <2559@ritcsh.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 88 07:30:17 GMT
References: <4358@dasys1.UUCP> <194300027@trsvax>
Reply-To: dani@ritcsh.UUCP (Dani Kadoch)
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT, Rochester, NY
Lines: 21

In article <194300027@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:
|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.

	The answer to all this is very simple - have a moderator that
will filter out humongous(sp?) pictures, and also restrict the volume
of material coming through, maybe to a certain amount of K per day.

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