On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:56:43 -0700, Gregg wrote:

Behold, Scott Dorsey scribed on tube chassis:

Straydog wrote:
Not all ISPs set all of their newsgroups to receive or propagate or
allow downloads of attachments from news posts. There was no image on my
news server for either of your messages. My ISP has set an error message
that says it allows binary attachements only in binary newsgroups (FYI)
if I try to post a message with an attached file to a newsgroup not set
to accept attached files.

It is VERY, VERY rude to post binaries to discussion groups. This is
about the most offensive thing you can do on Usenet. As a result, a lot
of backbone sites (including the one upstream of me) dump all binaries
in discussion groups.
--scott

I have no binary access, nor do a lot of users. I for one am greatful fo
binary posts in thse groups.

The picture came through fine.

In which case, the picture should have been uploaded to the
poster's website and a link provided. Are there reeally that many ISPs
who don't provide at least a few meg for this purpose?

It's also a courtesy to those with low-speed connections who
read text-only groups. If they feel it's worth their line time to pull
the binary down using the link, they're free to do so, but not forced
to do so.