Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:41:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kirk Olsen <kork@imagelan.com>
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
Subject: Re: Kudos and maybe GIFS?
In-Reply-To: <9504191635.AA27473@hpbs1686.boi.hp.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950419142025.21578C-100000@baidarka>
On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Bill Blohm wrote:
> And new methods of discussion, such as this list server of Kirk's that
> lets us discuss design and parameters from all over the place.
Time to explain a little "backwardness" of my site. I run this list
off of a PC with a 325 meg drive running (as of sunday) Unixware 2.0. And =
I
connect to the Internet via UUCP. A UUCP connection means that I connect
to my Internet provider at roughly half hour intervals during business
hours and periodcially during off hours. When connected I receive and
send batches of email via a normal phone line and modem.
I have lots of additional hardware that I could put archives on but
retrievals from this site would be ugly. Ideally someone on the list
has a directly accessable Internet site which has WWW or anonymous FTP
installed.
> Here's a question. I'd like to ask it of the group, as it will take up
> quite a bit of bandwidth, but it might be interesting. What say you abou=
t
> e-mailing uuencoded GIF files of baidarkas that you've built? I know I
> would love to get such, but I also know they take up a lot of bytes.
From my lowly point of view uuencoded GIFs mean lots of connect time.
Particularly as the list grows, since each item gets resent from here
to a list of at most 10 recipients.
> Another possibility would be to e-mail them to one location and let that
> person provide a list once in a while. If you want a GIF, you let him or
> her know which one and they will e-mail it to you? I'm not exactly hurti=
ng
> for space, but I don't exactly have a ton of loose bytes floating around
> either. If a central location is preferred, and Kirk's machine doesn't=
> have the capability,
For me the way I connect to the Internet is a much larger issue than
space once the items get here. At least for now.
That's not to say I would not like to see some of those GIFs.
kirk