But then again, no one forced anyone to download a binary on their slow
modem.
They made the choice all by themselves. Seems to me that takes away their
right to complain.

He thinks he is the keeper of the flame.
You must bow to his demands.
Or he will run home and tell his mother.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"Splat!" wrote in message
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message

This whole thing seems little other than a random personal attack at me
and
my wife with no grounding in fact.




Not wanting to annoy anybody,
and not understanding what you were talking about.
I contacted a few computer Guru's who helped to explain your previous
message :

" Because many servers segregate groups based on whether they allow
images or other binaries to be posted there. This is a text-only group
and does not want to be relegated to the shorter retentions and other
handling issues it would have if it were designated as a binary group. "

They all found it somewhat amusing,
but like me, were not sure if you were trying to be a smart ass, or just
anal.

My friends were much more helpful,
and explained your concerns to me as such :

A lot of people who read newsgroups messages,
do it over a slow modem.
These people find pictures and other ' binaries ',
frustrating when downloading messages from a newsgroup,
because it makes the downloading time much longer.
Although there is no rule against posting messages with ' binaries ',
it is a courtesy to these people if you post the picture, or such, on a
website,
and then post the URL to the website in your message on the newsgroup.

HEY !
I can understand that !
and genuinely sympathize with the slow modem problem.
If posting the picture on a website, instead of the newsgroup,
helps a lot of people out.
No problem !

But you E-mailing me at home, and asking me not to post picture on the
newsgroup,
with no explanation, ( like your the webmaster or something ),
and then when I did ask why, to posted what you did.
Expect a ' non - random ' negative response, or two.

Enough said on the subject,
the skies are blue,
I'm outta here,
Phil.