Re: ftpmail data

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From: Roy Richter
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 16:31

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In article <GARYM.91Jun6093906@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net>, garym@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Gary Murphy) writes:
|>
|>The only hope I've seen so far is to store on-line images
|>as very low-quality JPEG files and make those interested in obtaining
|>the real image arrange the transfer themselves.

Unworkable, though.  Where are you going to put them?  FTP site? Anon UUCP?
Mail them out?  All of these will overload a particular site.
There are large number of people who want these.
USENET may very well be the most efficient method of propogating them.

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Roy Richter                  Internet: rrichter@ph.gmr.com
Physics Dept, GM Research    UUCP:     {umich,cfctech}!rphroy!rrichter

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