Is their any valid reason for not wanting images posted to this group?
> > Yes. Besides the already stated point that not everybody in the world > has broadband, there is the even more important issue that many news > servers do not allow binaries, and those that do often have very poor > server retention, so posts don’t stick around for more than a day in > some cases, since the large binary files push all the text posts off the > server. True, you can get a pay-server like Giganews (which I use at > home), but not everybody wants to go to the effort of paying for this > service. This being the case, however, I do believe that there is > adequate justification for an alt.binaries.photoshop group. If anybody > knows how to go about starting a new newsgroup, it might be worth > trying. All I know is you probably have to start it by putting in a > petition at alt.config. If anybody wants to do the grunt work, by all > means, do so. > > > Yeh I take your point that a lot of people are using free news servers. I wouldn’t want the place stuffed with images at
