Re: GEnieLamp A2 July 1993

[aphelps@vicstoy.UUCP (Austin Phelps)]

In article <1993Jul26.034619.8201@fawlty.towers.oz.au> neville@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Neville Smith) writes:

>Most news readers have what's called a killfile. Even rn, which is considered
>to be an ancient and limited newsreader has killfiles. Just put the subjbect
>"GEnie" into it and you'll never have to read anything about GEnie again.

He still has to download it to kill it. His complaint was download something
that large that could have been posted in a compressed form on cba2.

>If on the other hand he's downloading every news article via some
>batch/uucp type of connection, then all I can say is bad luck.
>This is not how most people read the news.

#1 rules of Usenet is being considerate of other users and sites. This isn't
that. If that how you see if then you will miss Pro-Line sites cause they
couldn't afford to carry articles.

>Why should thousands of other users be deprived just because this guy
>has a slow modem. (Hey guys, don't make your BBS Ansi graphics.

Well what wrong with the binary group?

And ANSI graphics have nothing to do with downloading news feeds.

>I think it's a case of majority rules. Especially in this case
>where we have a ratio in the vicinity of 100:1. (very rough guestimate)

But the minorities still have rights and you can't ignore they and say
they are "wining".

>Most people want to read it.

They still can if it posted on the binary group. or make a Mailing list.


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