Basketweaver wrote:
Bill, I don't know why some ISPs are no longer carrying newsgroups.
I don't know that it has anything to do with the content or climate of a
particular
group. I frequent five NGs and our ISP dropped ALL NGs at the same
time which sent hubby looking for another way for us to visit them.
Pam (TOTP)



Pam,

Of course, you are right. Its not just a particular newsgroup that is
causing the problem. Many ISPs are dropping either all newsgroups or
just the binary newsgroups like this one because of cost. It takes a
lots resources (servers, bandwidth, administration) to store all the
newsgroups. More and more of the groups are filled with worthless spam
(but this group has been able to avoid a lot of it).

It is likely just a matter of time before usenet is dead (or, more
likely, very limited carriage) which, IMO, is a shame.
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)



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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:20:37 -0500, joevan wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:07:08 -0500, Bill R
wrote:

Donn Thorson wrote:
2008
These are planted surrounding my pond...



Again Donn, why the super large posts? MANY if us would like to just
view your pictures without having to scroll up and down and right and
left to see the entire picture. Also, it would be nice if you could
post the entire picture in one post.

If someone desires to see a higher resolution version of your pictures
you could send it to them. Many of us just want to casually view the
pictures here and don't want (or need) the large images.
Why complain to the poster. If you don't have it get irfanview free
viewer and set it to fit to screen large images. If you need help just
ask but don't blame the posters for your own problems.

Or get a news reader that will size the pix to fit. I use Pan myself.

--

Travis in Shoreline Washington

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:05:07 -0500, Bill R wrote:

Garrapata wrote:

Any competent picture viewer will have an option to reduce large images
to whatever size you want. If you refuse to take a minimal effort to
solve your problem you have no right to complain.

You are just another "newbie" who just doesn't get it. I have been
reading and posting in this newsgroup for over 12 years and it is just
in the past year or so that people (newbies) have become so
inconsiderate as to bash a poster who they don't agree with. There is
no reason to post a 20 x 28 inch picture in a usenet newsgroup (and some
are posting larger pictures than that). The usenet binary newsgroups
are for causal viewing, not "full resolution" pictures. At one time we
(the people that stated this group) suggested that pictures be limited
to 5 x 7". I think that is still a reasonable size. If you want to
post larger pictures, post them on a web site (like I do).

The size of pictures posted here are not measured in inches. They are
measured in bits and/or bytes.

--

Travis in Shoreline Washington

Pixels. There are two sizes, the display dimensions are in pixels, the file
size is in bytes.

Travis wrote:
|
| The size of pictures posted here are not measured in inches. They are
| measured in bits and/or bytes.