On 2008-07-22, Bruce A. Frank wrote:
Wait till I post a picture! I see the net nannies are alive and vocal as
ever. Jay, I am using the news reader in Netscape 4.2. I am lucky it is
functioning at all. Please filter me out. I did not know that the Internet
Newsgroups were still arguing about the "politeness" of bandwidth.
It's not the bandwidth that's impolite. It's that not everyone reads Usenet
with a web browser. This is merely annoying when it's limited to text; it's
rude beyond belief when you include pictures and other, non-text items.
Here's what your message looks like in a pure text newsreader:
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Wait till I post a picture! I see the net nannies are alive and vocal as
ever. Jay, I am using the news reader in Netscape 4.2. I am lucky it is
functioning at all. Please filter me out. I did not know that the Internet
Newsgroups were still arguing about the "politeness" of bandwidth.
pJay Maynard wrote:
blockquote TYPE=CITEOn 2008-07-20, Bruce A. Frank
wrote:
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br Is this post making it through? Having some problems with the program
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br use to access RAH.</html
pIt's making it through, but as HTML. This is antisocial. Please turn
off
brHTML posting in your newsreader.
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brJay Maynard, K5ZC &nbs p;
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