Re: link picture What's wrong???
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Re: link picture What's wrong???
Tim-
Thanks for saying that. I hope people like that heed your message. And
actually, I would bet about 50,000+ usenet servers worldwide carry this group,
making it more like 15 GIGABYTES of WASTED bandwidth.
What really makes me angry is converting this file to JPG (the idiot left it in
BMP format) brings it down to UNDER 5K.... Thats 60x smaller!!
Just some thoughts...
Richard
On Monday, September 15, 1997 12:18 PM, Tim P. Gerla [SMTP:timg@MEANS.NET]
wrote:
> [300K worth of uuencode snipped]
>
> Alright, this is the last straw for me. I am going to type this in clear,
> short, uppercase words.
>
> ***
> DO NOT POST BINARIES TO A MAILING LIST.
> ***
>
> It's plain common sense. That picture was 300K, almost a third of a
> megabyte. There are about 400 subscribers to this list, last time I checked,
> there are undoubtable more now. Lets see, that's 121.413 MEGABYTES going
> through the net. People wonder WHY the net is slowing down?
>
> That's not counting the newsfeeds. I'm not going to try to estimate how
> many usenet servers carry this list, but if we go with 3000, that's another
> GIGABYTE of disk space and bandwidth wasted. That's not counting the
> bandwidth used by people who downloaded the picture from the server, either.
>
> By not it shouldn't be hard for people to figure out that posting large
> things to mailing lists is, in small, simple words, very very bad, and you
> should not do it. No matter what.
>
> Here are some alternatives for next time:
>
> 1. Post it to a web page, and just mail the URL. If you don't have a web
> page, go to www.geocities.com.
>
> 2. Write up an ascii diagram.
>
> 3. Figure out the @#$ problem yourself.
>
> (Sorry for sounding heartless, but I'm fed up with net abuse, lamers, etc. I
> also just had by braces tightened.)
>
> --
> -Tim
> --
> Tim P. Gerla | timg@means.net | http://www.cjnetworks.com/~coryb/timg/
> OS: Linux 2.1.54. Machine: AMD 486/120, 36MB, 4.3gig.