Re: Resend : 9thwave.pdf (uses another decodingtype) - 9thwave.uue [01/15]

[stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender)]

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan <dmckiern@weber.ucsd.edu> ignorantly spouts:

   > Dennis Bergstrom wrote:
   > 
   >> [in total 15 messages of binary junk *again*]

   It's not junk.  It's manchapuriata, but I've been able to figure out
   most or all of how to convert it back into the .pdf. (Got to dash
   and do some other stuff before I learn whether the job is done.)

   > Look, mate.  Will you stop posting binaries in here?  Upload to an
   > FTP site, by all means, or post them to a binaries group.  But refrain
   > from effectively mail-bombing the group.  Have a little consideration
   > for those that pay for their own news feed.

   This is really unkind.  Bergstrom is trying to make available
   something that most of us would like to have, and the attempt has
   clearly involved significant effort on his part.  If you =had= to
   slam him, couldn't you have done that with direct email?

_I_ didn't want 1.4 megabytes of uuencoded and BASE64 data for a
document I can't use coming into _my_ personal mailbox.

Apparently you are ignorant of the nature of
rec.music.gaffa/Love-Hounds.  rec.music.gaffa is not just a
mailing list, it's a mail-news gateway.  So when this moron
posted and REPOSTED that gigantic file, it meant that every
mailing list subscriber got either a 1.4M digest or 1.4M of loose
mail as a result.  This is unacceptable.  The people who didn't
want that gigantic piece of junk shouldn't be forced to swallow
it because thre are a few people who did, and anyone who is
ignorant enough to post binaries to a mail-news gateway deserves
to be flamed into unconsciousness.