"Robert John Guttke" wrote:
Don’t post binaries here! Please!
Why? Did it kill you?
A picture is worth a thousand words – a word is 4 bytes. Therefore, a picture is equivalent to 4k. Was your photo more than 4k in size?
Did you know that a copy of your picture was posted to every newsserver in the world that carries this group? Potentially, that’s several hundred at least – which makes an "innocent" 4k image swell to several hundred thousand bytes (about half a meg) if you consider the space wasted across ALL servers.
If your picture was larger, the waste compounds dramatically …. 🙂
Messages expire on servers as space is used up. Like the oxygen in a room, it takes quite a bit to "use up" a newsserver’s resources. Yet, there you went, and made a good stab at it. Usenet is not going to fall, but if there were a couple dozen more "you"s, my service provider might decide to stop carrying a "stealth binary group". This group. That would indeed kill this group, at least at my end. Ooops!
Happy now?
The Doormouse
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