On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:07:51 +0000, Octopussi <octopuse@lds.org> wrote:
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:>I was also wondering if you have an account with Newshosting, or is it
:>just provided via your ISP?
:
:ah- the critical question.
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:My posts have the virtue of being download-able by anyone whatever
:type of account they may have.
Hi Octopussi,
Could it just be that virtue is in the mind of the beholder?
I have long maintained that there are four elements in binary posting
that go beyond personal preference:
1) - yEnc article size
2) - WinRAR part size
3) - PAR2 creation
4) - PowerPost header creation
Beyond those four items, I regard everything else as 'optional'.
As it turned out, I have met with great resistance on items 3 & 4, but
there seems to be a general consensus regarding items 1 & 2.
Perhaps that is because the latter two items only effect the individual
relationship between the poster and the downloader, while the former two
items impact the entire group as a whole, regardless of their interest
in any particular post.
I really believe you will have a difficult time in finding support for
~10 MB WinRAR parts @ 2560 yEnc lines.
To give you a quick example, my post of Le Plaisir would have gone from
this:
Plaisir, Le (1952).part01.rar - 3 of 30(*/99)
with 2057 articles to (approximately) this:
Plaisir, Le (1952).part001.rar - 3 of 800(*/30)
with well over 20,000 articles!
So for the next eight months (current Giganews retention), anyone who
wished to refresh the group's headers would need to wait while their
newsreader or binary downloader consolidated those extra 18,000+
articles to their individual main headers.
To put it another way, I would have to post 10 DVD's to your single post
to cause as much damage to the group.
Virtue is as virtue does, I guess.
Isis
P.S. - Looks like 'Beales' will be a Criterion, but 'House' only has a
.50/.50 chance.
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