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From: Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Sad Commentary on ABPA
Date: 17 Jul 2017 16:20:15 -0700
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In article <okjee51qek@news7.newsguy.com>, F. Russell says...
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>Virtually all of the images posted on this NG are TOTALLY
>USELESS due to their small size and resolution.
YAWN...
Lead by example...
USENET was not meant to repository for the preservation of history.
To coin your phrase..."All users should educate themselves on proper digital
download techniques or hire a competent consultant."
...get a life
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>Usenet could be an extremely valuable historical repository
>if only the posters had an inkling of knowledge about image
>processing.
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>All images not in digital format should be scanned in at
>least 600 dpi. Anything less is, at best, a ludicrous joke.
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>Sure, this will lead to large file sizes, but that issue is no
>longer tenable, if it ever was tenable, on the contemporary
>Internet.
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>It sickens me to think of the gigabytes of visual information
>that have been totally squandered due to a lack of competence
>on the part of the poster. The argument that such posts are
>"better than nothing" is a feeble argument in response.
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>History cannot be adequately preserved with a "postage stamp"
>image. All posters should educate themselves on proper digital
>techniques or hire a competent consultant.
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>I make no apologies for my roughness. History is far too important
>to be entrusted to ignoramuses.
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