"Sacha" wrote in message
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A past member of urg called in today - I think he still looks in
occasionally - and we had a bit of a chat. He remarked that one thing he
likes about the group he most frequents now is that it is permissible to
post pictures. His comment is that as most people now have broadband it
could be/should be possible to allow this group to take them, too.
I thought it would be worth canvassing opinion on this. I wonder what
most
people feel about being able to post and view pics directly on the group?
Would it inconvenience many people or please and help even more?


I think you must be referring to binaries. Which are very large
picture files in text format, which require extra (free) software to
download and display. Many Newsgroups apart from the dedicated binary
groups won't accept binaries as they consume too much space in the
NewsGroup caches on the servers. Newsgroups which are carried for
free and which are stil growing in number every day. While even as
far as binary newsgroups themselves are concerned, most NewsServers,
News.Individual included, won't carry them for similar reasons but
only carry text groups. While NewsServers which carry binary groups
are usually more expensive.

In any case, pictures can be easily downloaded to sites such as

http://tinypic.com/

for free.



michael adams

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(email address on website)