Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!xanth!kent
From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Picture swap (was Re: clite demo)
Message-ID: <5560@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 88 01:20:57 GMT
References: <4398@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <4398@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <2267@antique.UUCP> vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier) writes:
>>In article <4380@killer.UUCP> woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods) writes:
>>>In article <5269@dayton.UUCP> joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes:
>>>>
>>>>the moderators would like to post them to .binaries?
>>>
>>>We came to the conclusion that, yes, we would be willing to
>>>post picture files ... , but we couldn't justify archive space for them.
>>
>>Hi, it's me, being negative again.  Pictures are not worth archiving at
>>even the one site that people count on for archives, but they *are*
>>worth spending several hundred hours of Usenet phone time per picture
>>to transmit around the world?  (And they're not even naughty?  :-))  Oh
>>my aching backbone!
>
>I've gotta agree with Charles on this one. As much as I like to see the
>free flow of free information, the volume volume volume we are talking
>about here is staggering.
>
>Put them on a commercial network where you get some idea of the real cost.
>
>Become the "Fred Fish of pictures". Become a central distribution
>point; distribute to user groups. But flood the net with those
>puppies and even telebits wont save us.
>
>(I have about 30+ picture disks, whats that, 25 megabytes. Sheesh.)
>

Much as I hate to agree with Richard about anything, he is absolutely
right here (I think one of his fish typed it, personally).  I can
produce a priceless work of art in 30 minutes, tops, as opposed to
weeks or months to make a program the same size; the flood of pictures
could easily displace or delay beyond sustaining some great PD
programs.

No telebit trailblazer can beat the bandwidth of Leo on his bike with
his cape pockets full of picture disks.  Pictures should be passed
around at club meetings, shared with local BBS's, but not sent on the
net unless they have some other value (thereby excusing my Bard's Tale I
Maps, I hope ;-) - they are just too low value for the storage and
transmission costs.

Now if someone wants to collect them by USnail and make them available
ftp, so those who get, pay, I suppose that would be alright.

Kent, the man from xanth.