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From: "Bob (not my real pseudonym)" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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On 17 Jul 2017 22:41:09 GMT, "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> wrote:
>Virtually all of the images posted on this NG are TOTALLY
>USELESS due to their small size and resolution.
>
>Usenet could be an extremely valuable historical repository
>if only the posters had an inkling of knowledge about image
>processing.
>
>All images not in digital format should be scanned in at
>least 600 dpi. Anything less is, at best, a ludicrous joke.
>
>Sure, this will lead to large file sizes, but that issue is no
>longer tenable, if it ever was tenable, on the contemporary
>Internet.
>
>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.
>
>History cannot be adequately preserved with a "postage stamp"
>image. All posters should educate themselves on proper digital
>techniques or hire a competent consultant.
>
>I make no apologies for my roughness. History is far too important
>to be entrusted to ignoramuses.
By definition, a scanned image comes from a source that has already
been preserved for history.
If photographers wish to essentially donate their work into the public
domain by posting full resolution originals, that is their choice,
unwise as it may be.
I don't recognize your nym as common here, much less attached to the
type of posts you describe; thus your "roughness" carries very little
weight.
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