Re: FS: Electric Guitar

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From: Peter Jensen
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 05:57

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Joshua D. Geiger <gte975n@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I have never understood why people do not want binaries posted to
> newsgroups.  Could someone please help me as to why this is a problem with
> newsgroups.  Thanks for your time!!!

  Due to the way that newsgroup messages are distributed, it's fairly
ineffecient to distribute large objects (like pictures). Basically,
the data gets moved around a whole lot more than it would have to for
the interested people to get a copy if it was just on a web server.

  In the case of this newsgroup, the set of people that would be at
all interested in looking at the picture is fairly small compared to
the number of people who would read the post. Thus, making their
clients download the message every time is inefficient, whereas
putting it up on a web page requires that only those interested
download it.

  Perhaps someone else can do a better job. The basic idea is that
it's a waste of bandwdith and time.

-Peter

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From: Peter Jensen <jensen@cc.gatech.edu>
Newsgroups: git.ads
Subject: Re: FS: Electric Guitar
Date: 2 Nov 2000 05:57:44 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
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