"Shiver Me Timbers" wrote in message
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The major drawback to the newsgroups, however, is that they do not allow
the
transmission of photos.

Says who.....??????

alt.binaries.pictures.aviation

A newsgroup is one of the worst ways to distribute binary images. Huge
amounts of data are sent to servers that never need them, and the
representation of the data is inherently inefficient. In addition, the data
do not remain indefinitely.

Finally, have you considered the possibility that those of us reading
rec.aviation.piloting (and other text newsgroups) do not care to visit the
binary newsgroups, trying to sift through all the other stuff there to find
a handful of messages, or that many of us use ISPs that simply don't even
carry the binary newsgroups?

Hmmmmm..... Do I smell another commercial plug for alexisparkinn
comming up.

Ahhh...your true motivation appears. It's not that you actually think
there's something technically wrong, you're just offended at the scent of
commercialism.

We had this thread awhile back already. Do us all a favor, go back and
savor the thread on Google Groups, and leave the rest of us who've already
experienced it alone.

Pete