On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:58:12 +0200, "Richard"
wrote:

J3's space shuttle posting amounted to almost 5 G of high quality pictures.
The pictures were really great, but it comes at a cost.
The flood itself washes out all other posts and for guys out there who don't
use a high speed internet connection it can be a real pain in the behind.

Um, you're confusing multi-part posts with multiple posts. A
relatively large single post is frequently (depending on the posting
software and NSP) broken up into smaller parts, but it's still one
post. For example, if someone posted a .rar file with 50 photos, but
the post was segmented by the posting software into 10 parts, it's
still one post, and one header, to the NSP. If on the other hand the
poster uploaded all 50 shots separately, that would be 50 posts and 50
headers.

See the difference?

Since the NSPs track by posts, and not parts, unless someone puts up
an 800-part .rar file it won't hurt retention.

Again: learn to love the killfile.