Posting pictures on this group

Jose wrote:

Simplified a bit, the way Usenet works, you make a post. That post gets
copied again and again and again, making its way to umpteen servers all
over the world, so that it can be read. If it's a small binary it is
still lots bigger than a long post. No matter how cheap storage and
bandwidth is, it is still finite, and many servers will only hold so
much. Every single binary therefore kicks out lots of text posts.

The way the web works, you upload to your site, and it sits there. ONLY
when people come to look at the site is it transmitted to another
server. So even a =huge= binary on the web has far less impact as if it
were on Usenet.

Thanks Jose, but I realize how usenet works. The point I was making is
that compared to the other file sizes being posted (i.e. 4 GB+ DVD
images) pictures are small. Of course they are bigger than text, but
small relatively speaking.

Jose wrote:

Simplified a bit, the way Usenet works, you make a post. That post gets
copied again and again and again, making its way to umpteen servers all
over the world, so that it can be read. If it's a small binary it is
still lots bigger than a long post. No matter how cheap storage and
bandwidth is, it is still finite, and many servers will only hold so
much. Every single binary therefore kicks out lots of text posts.

The way the web works, you upload to your site, and it sits there. ONLY
when people come to look at the site is it transmitted to another
server. So even a =huge= binary on the web has far less impact as if it
were on Usenet.

Thanks Jose, but I realize how usenet works. The point I was making is
that compared to the other file sizes being posted (i.e. 4 GB+ DVD
images) pictures are small. Of course they are bigger than text, but
small relatively speaking.

Regardless, I don't think a non-binary titled
newsgroup will ever reach a critical mass of images being uploaded to
cause an issue...

Once it's tolerated, it's a short hop to advertising video.

Jose
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:37:07 -0500, "Cody Dawg"
wrote:
Is picture posting not permitted on this group as I would like to post some
pictures I took from a recent flight down the Hudson Corridor (pre-Lidle)?

The best solution is for you to post them on your own web page... The
next best solution is for you to use http://www.tinypic.com and then
post the links in a message here if you needed to refer to them in a
message on this newsgroup... Some people might not have access to the
alt.* binary newsgroups, so I would say that should be your last
choice unless you're just wanting to post them and you don't care if
anyone actually sees them...

Grumman-581 wrote:
The best solution is for you to post them on your own web page... The
next best solution is for you to use http://www.tinypic.com and then
post the links in a message here if you needed to refer to them in a
message on this newsgroup... Some people might not have access to the
alt.* binary newsgroups, so I would say that should be your last
choice unless you're just wanting to post them and you don't care if
anyone actually sees them...


The problem with tinypic is you don't KNOW where you're going when you click on
their link. I've been mooned too many times in the past to bother with tinypic
URLs ever again. Better to post the whole link if you can. I've got my
wordwrap set to 80 characters and it wordwraps the links intact even if it
stretches out over more than one line.



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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:37:07 -0500, "Cody Dawg"
wrote in :

Is picture posting not permitted on this group as I would like to post some
pictures I took from a recent flight down the Hudson Corridor (pre-Lidle)?


If you are unfamiliar with how Usenet works, consider studying the
information available he

http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html
http://www.usenet.com/articles/newsgroup_netiquette.htm
http://www.newsreaders.com/guide/netiquette.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1
http://www.imagescape.com/helpweb/news/newsnet.html
http://www.faqs.org/usenet/
http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/usenet-help.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:37:07 -0500, Cody Dawg wrote:

Is picture posting not permitted on this group as I would like to post some
pictures I took from a recent flight down the Hudson Corridor (pre-Lidle)?

I've used quite a few free web based photo sites and still haven't found
one I like better than http://photobucket.com/

It's the only one I've found that will let you upload high res photos
without reducing the size of them.

Example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DeckPoster.jpg


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Dallas

Dallas wrote:

It's the only one I've found that will let you upload high res photos
without reducing the size of them.

Example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DeckPoster.jpg


Dreamer........

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:32:52 -0500, ManhattanMan wrote:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...DeckPoster.jpg

Dreamer........

Na... that's a button pusher's office. I like the smell of motor oil in my
face. :-)


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