sorry

didn't realize a little pic would be trouble.

cocoa

T Michelle Jensen wrote:
didn't realize a little pic would be trouble.

cocoa

In the grand scheme of things one picture isn't a disaster. )

It's just that Usenet newsgroups are text only unless they have the word
binary in the name. ISPs allot a certain amount of space on their news
servers for posts. As new messages are posted old ones fall off. Posts that
contain attachments, pictures, or HTML are very large compared to plain text
and take up much more space, causing older messages to fall off the server
faster. There are literally thousands of newsgroups that make up Usenet. If
many people start posting in HTML or adding pictures the retention time for
posts could end up being hours rather than days or weeks.
--
Jeri
"Change is inevitable, except from vending machines."

Jeri wrote:

Posts that
contain attachments, pictures, or HTML are very large compared to plain text
and take up much more space, causing older messages to fall off the server
faster.


So are posts that contain an entire 5-page repeat of every prior post in
the topic.

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Jeri wrote:
T Michelle Jensen wrote:

didn't realize a little pic would be trouble.

cocoa


In the grand scheme of things one picture isn't a disaster. )

It's just that Usenet newsgroups are text only unless they have the word
binary in the name. ISPs allot a certain amount of space on their news
servers for posts. As new messages are posted old ones fall off. Posts that
contain attachments, pictures, or HTML are very large compared to plain text
and take up much more space, causing older messages to fall off the server
faster. There are literally thousands of newsgroups that make up Usenet. If
many people start posting in HTML or adding pictures the retention time for
posts could end up being hours rather than days or weeks.

Ignorant as I am, I didn't know all this. Thanks, Jeri, for the
explanation. We live and learn daily!

Gillian