DeMoN_LaG wrote:
>
> Cevpx wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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.
Hmmm, interesting ....... I guess this machine isn't a news server then
by your definition ?? We don't implement a Usenet Feed, this is a
private server.
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
Novell MCNE-5/CNI
UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
Post To Group ONLY, No Email Please!!
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![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}