Re: BNL Job: X-Ray Detector Development (Engineering Focus)

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:32:44 -0500, Robert Adsett wrote:
In article <XCAbj.11821$GV4.564@trnddc05>, Rich Grise says...
John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:20:02 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian

Binaries in textual groups are frowned upon, however.

More than that; they're impossible.

How So?

[image/png]

Well, that line is all of the binaries to make it here.

Yeah, same here in Pan, but Knode renders it OK. Pan shows most
other images, well, at least gifs and jpegs; but it doesn't
even have an "attach" button/menu entry; I had to use Knode
to post the image.

I figured it wouldn't set off any alarms as it's 568 bytes or
something, which might get expanded to 1K or so by some kind
of encoding method to send it in 7-bit bytes or something.

The reason I'd heard for keeping binaries out of text groups
is because they take up so much space that they make other
messages expire prematurely, but I figure 1K can do no harm -
I've seen followups that have 1K of

....
xxx wrote:
yyy wrote:
zzz wrote:
etc.

(usually to post a one-line "snappy comeback".)
;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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