In article <bib2css0e7eksoi7dh6lmu1kgqsfo6aq93@4ax.com>, Alan Kong 
<ako### [at] povrayNO-SPAMorg> wrote:

>   Maybe. Bill's got an interesting idea that I've considered in the
> past, also. But, would it end up being a depository for a someone's
> series of ten 100k test images? If it did, I'd probably end up pulling
> the plug (unsubscribing) on that group due to the online time necessary
> to retrieve that stuff. Ideally, an binary.images group should be
> unrestricted since it'll scroll in short order anyway but, in practice,
> a group that is over-satuated with big file, test renders wouldn't be
> popular for long for folks with modem access.

I have a modem connection. :-)
Not a particularly good one either, I have a 56K modem which never goes 
above 33.6, and usually stays under 28.8. But I see what you mean, if 
people misuse the group by posting tons of pictures it won't be very 
popular. Maybe just a general rule not to post more than 4 versions at a 
time, or keep the total size of all images below 500K. This would be 
"regulated" by just warning people when they post excessively.

Or maybe...would it be possible to set things up so that you can post a 
message to povray.binaries.images with the subject starting with 
something like "TEMP:", and have all threads starting with one of those 
messages automatically expire in a week or so? This wouldn't solve the 
modem speed problem, though. In fact, some people would consider it 
worse, since they can't weed out those images(by just not subscribing to 
the .temp group) unless their software supports a way to selectively not 
download those images. And it might be needlessly complex(it would be 
easier to remember to post to the .temp group than to prefix every 
message subject).

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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