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In article <4hmu0j$hs7@hasle.sn.no>, balchen@sn.no (Jens Balchen Jr.) writes:

> jlowe@hiwaay.net (Joe Lowe) probably used a keyboard to type:

> >Scott Dorsey (kludge@netcom.com) wrote:

> >: If you start paying for my feed, you can post anything you want.  But
> >: as long as the cost of your access is subsidized by me, 
> >: I'd appreciate
> >: if you'd refrain from doing boneheaded things like posting gargantuan
> >: binaries to discussion groups.

> >How about you paying for mine, then you can tell me what I can and cannot 
> >post. 

Oh jeez, another Canker & Seagull, just what we need.

> Don't you understand that we are here on the basis that we don't bother the
> others? If I wanted to, I could ruin everything you do, but I don't. Why?
> Because I don't want you to do that to me. I don't about you, but I don't
> like seeing 40-50K binary postings being downloaded.

Isn't there already a nice hierarchy devoted to binary postings?
There's no need to post binaries in the discussion groups, which
are often frequented by people without high-bandwidth
connections. Anyway, what I'd like to see is people putting up
for FTP whatever binaries they wish to make available to the
world and then posting pointers to the location, instead of
posting the binary. Those who couldn't FTP could then ask for a
uuencode|mail or for a friend to FTP it for them. There are also
the various ftpmail servers here and there.

> >If you have a sluggish connection, dump it and get a better provider.

And when people like you clog even ISDN connections to our ISP's?
Will you tell us all to get T3's to our homes? Or will
cablemodems do for the time being? If attitudes like yours become
much more popular, no amount of bandwidth will ever be enough.

> This is just like the Microsoft stategy: If the app runs to slow, buy new
> hardware.

And buy a new OS as well, when no amount of hardware can solve
minor problems like exhaustion of the lower 640KB or of those
tiny 64KB resource heaps. :-(

[chomp]

Why is this crossposted to such different newsgroups?
Followups to alt.retromod.

-- 
Joe Foster (joe@bftsi0.gate.net or joe%bftsi0@uunet.uu.net)
WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above        They're   coming  to
because  my cats have  apparently  learned to type.        take me away, ha ha!