Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale

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From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00

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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:20:26 GMT, Ian Galbraith wrote:
>The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. 
>

But the mountain is voting.  

Sysadmins of news servers don;t like HTML in posts for the same
reason they don;t like binaries - they take up too much space.

When a newsfeed is several gigabytes a day, this is important.

So the newsadmins are likely to fight back.

Already one of the big newsfeeds in the US is working on a protocol
that will cancel HTMLized postss, simply not pass them on.

Remember - you get to read news because people who own and look after
equipment allow you to.  If it gets too hard or too expensive
they will decide not to.... and you lose news.

Sticking to the rules does you no harm, and means you don't deprive
others of Usenet.

Zebee

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From: zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale
Date: 1998/03/23
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