🚀 go-pugleaf

But I didn't post any file attachments. It was just a simple question...


- Bishop

Todd Fiske wrote in message <79tcl9$m1l@lotho.delphi.com>...
>On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 22:26:28 -0500, Dark_Spirit <Dark_Spirit@geocities.com>
>wrote:
>
>>> Smack yourself.  Hard.  Repeatedly.  While telling yourself over and
over,
>>> "I will not post or cross-post binaries to discussion groups!"
>>
>>why not? the user have the choice to download the library or not...
>
>Not everyone reads news online one message at a time. I download all new
>messages in this group (clpb) for offline reading each time I log on. Yes,
>I could set up a filter to kill all messages over a certain size, but I
>shouldn't have to. The policy of Usenet is to not post encoded binaries, or
>even excessively long source code listings, to a discussion group such as
>this one. For more information on this, please read the messages in
>news.answers relevant to netiquette. You can also find info in the FAQs for
>this group:
>
>   Timo's TP FAQ: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
>
>   CLPB Mini-FAQ: http://www.pascal.force9.co.uk/faq/clpb-faq.txt
>                  also available in this newsgroup
>
>In the future, it would be better for you to post a pointer to a file on a
>webpage or FTP site. This way you can still be helpful, and not clog up the
>newsgroup or newsservers. When you send something to a newsgroup, you are
>effectively copying it to thousands of hard drives all over the world. Just
>think of how much space that 4992 line 369056 byte post is taking up on all
>of those disks, and compare it to the relatively small number of people who
>actually want it. I hope you'll consider this and not do it again.
>
>-tf