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From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: RFC - comp.binaries.gif
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Date: 16 May 88 21:36:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    May 16 16:36:00 1988


I belong to GEnie.  GIF files get posted there from time to time.  I never
download them because they are SO big, and I don't want to pay for them.

I would expect that a lot of Usenet system administrators would feel the
same way; somebody's paying for all this, after all.  And I don't see that
such files provide much real benefit per byte, either--all they are
(usually) is entertainment.  While there are groups devoted to entertainment,
they aren't pushing megabytes through uucp links...
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