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In article <Bx9zEu.K4p@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>bugs, you certainly can't be bothered to upgrade for the significantly more
>minor benefit of being 8-bit clean.
>

It depends if it's a minor benefit.  If being 8 bit clean means you can get
a new generation of multimedia, rich text and binary newsgroups that you just
can't get any other way, you'll upgrade.

We plan next year to start introducing wirephotos along with our electronic
newspaper feed.  They are big -- some up to a megabyte, and I just don't
see putting them out encoded in printable characters or split over articles.

While I am always willing to take user input, I want to try saying, "You want
these pictures, you have to run software that can take 1 megabyte raw
binaries."   I think most of our customers already are running this, and
of course we don't expect every customer to take these photos, if only because
they are so large and not everybody has hardware to display them easily.

We put out around 2mb of news each day right now, but these photos would
increase it a great deal.  I expect only our NNTP fed customers would have
the bandwidth for it.

In addition, we'll need MIME display patches for existing newsreaders, and
eventually new newsreaders.  Possibly this will spur it on.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366