-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dear Simon,
On 01:00 15.12.2002, you [Simon Blake ([EMAIL PROTECTED])] wrote... > This is the direction that we are moving in: technologies are using more > and more bandwidth as they are developed and increase in popularity. Web > boards, newsgroup downloads, graphic intensive sites, flash > animations, streaming audio and video, software updates, OS updates, > desktop delivery, HTML email, S/MIME, etc. all eat bandwidth, and as > we are encouraged to use them the 'system' expands I don't think this is a good way to go ;) Sure, flash is nifty, but have a look at some recent sites, you can't access the information without having the latest and greatest browser with suited plugins. Happened to e just yesterday, when I was surfing around for a Maltese cell phone card. Know what I did? I closed the browser window, and went to the competitors site, and brought there. I think these "great" webdesigners should not forget that it's not them who are going to spend money, but the customer. And, BTW, "downloads" via newsgroups is a shame. Point. NNTP has *never* been thought of to pass binary data. Yes, it is done nowadays, but look how. Having to transfer gigabytes (!) each day, just to keep them for a few hours in your spool, that's *ridiculous*. There is FTP, there is HTTP, perhaps theres DCC in IRC, but really not NNTP. And, to be honest, eMail isn't suited very well either. Just have a look what the size of an empty mail with just a 3 Mb attached file becomes! I think this goes OT, so we may move it? :) Cheers, Johannes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Cyber-Knights Templar build 6.5.8ckt09 Comment: Freiheit stirbt in kleinen Stuecken... Comment: KeyID: 0x73D62D41 Comment: Fingerprint: 69C0 50A1 C96A FF3F 3F09 6E91 F9B8 B727 iQEVAwUBPf2ozgt4MvNz1i1BAQE7yQgApmv45NeRzQB8A2Diy07MhV48JGEL8XmM HBUmzcFZcEa4jvX0lUyg2kbwLcGuS+L6cogcbbDlZaFuUZo8pz7DwXwVt6AV2o9z yKs1A/0ZPw6i+F4L5h0aOLBIjhMcXFc4FzeOedyYEr1h8J61ct92CmdlzyNWcLfR JqIEj5tm9RmU8XwP+VODIlV34ozEZ0zrQTg0WYWqS09GI7/e6Ab6SSjFbkPT3Hp4 0frN6r1L15N9FTQ/YCj1MEwyhkMINsf9YyGlN/0V1C5ZJnYeVKVh1e5hboSprSOd 8AKoIVuA48p9+6H2KJbtX3hvqrJROmPiI5GG16HgkkxB14+ix8kYnw== =oqx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
