Cevpx wrote:
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> I'm not advocating posting HTML in a newsgroup where the regulars don't
> want it. OTOH, I think software developers need to understand that this
> new generation getting hooked up to the internet just won't understand
> why a news readers doesn't have this capability. There are places on
> Usenet where this is acceptable and there are news servers not connected
> to Usenet that don't have a problem with HTML. IOW, Usenet is not the
> only game in town and it shouldn't limit what a news/email client should
> be capable of.
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If a News server is "not connected to Usenet" it's not a news server. Usenet is a
huge collection of servers.
My server, via @Home, gets my post. It sends it to it's peers, who
sentd it to their peers, and eventually every server gets my post. If
the server is not connected to the chain, it is no longer a News Server.
It is now a BBS server for a small group of people who use the same
ISP. Usenet *is* the only game in town when it comes to Newsgroups. It
doesn't limit what a news client is capable of. News clients can make
posts in HTML. The fact that most ignorant people do post in HTML is
proof that it *can* do it. You just shouldn't when it isn't appropriate:
"
Whenever I click <something> in Mozilla it crashes. A screen shot of
the crash is at http://some.site/folder/BigScreenShot.jpg"; has just as
much information as:
"
<HTML>
<Body background="http://www.somesite.domain/folder/file/bigJPEG.jpg";>
<font color="blue">Whenever I click <font
size="+4"><b>something</b><font size="0"> in <i>Mozilla</i> it crashes.
Here is a screen shot: <img
src="http://same.server/folder/file/hugeScreenShot.jpg";><font
color="Red" size="+5">Help me!</font></body></html>
"
Why waste that much bandwith, server time and server hard drive on such
trivial crap? Why make people on slow connections who syncronize
newsgroups download a possibly 500kb+ jpeg image that they are paying to
download?
You also never post any binary files to a non *.binaries.* group.
That's a huge post. On some servers, it pushes hundreds and hundreds of
posts with content off the server to make room for it.
![http://some.site/folder/BigScreenShot.jpg"](http://some.site/folder/BigScreenShot.jpg"){kind=link}
![http://www.somesite.domain/folder/file/bigJPEG.jpg"](http://www.somesite.domain/folder/file/bigJPEG.jpg"){kind=link}
![http://same.server/folder/file/hugeScreenShot.jpg"](http://same.server/folder/file/hugeScreenShot.jpg"){kind=link}