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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:47:40 +0200, JC <John.Collins42@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Houghi, forgive me for my ignorance, but what is that you're always
>mailing about 'no binaries'??
>I don't quite understand what you mean by that....
>Sorry if that sounds stupid :)

Binaries in newsgroups are not wanted. They tak up serious space on
servers worldwide. There are special newsgroups for binaries. Some
postmasters do not accept these groups and if they see that a hirarchy
has a lot of binaries in them, they delete the complete hirarchy.
(e.g. be.* or nl.*)

Also binary groups do have a shorter TTL (Time To Live) e.g. at Ping
two days for binary groups whereas 'normal' groups stay on for 14
days.

An other reason is that some people are forced to download everything
before they can see if a posting is binary or not. Because of the
posting of binaries you FORCE them to stay online longer than needed.

The postings are storee on every newsserver on the world that accepts
the newsgroup. Thus costing the provider extra money what you will
have to pay, wheras if you place a ling to your site with the binary
Only those who want it will download it and it takes up less time and
space. (e.g. http://www.ping.be/houghi/Files where you can download
the mailprogram I use)

I hope this clears things up a bit.


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