> > Hmmm, current disk price is $0.05 per meg and falling rapidly.
> >
> > 81 K of attachments is taking up "valuable space" worth $$0.00396 (US).
 Thats
> > right, 4 tenths of a cent. Significant? You decide.
>
> With a 14.4K modem, 71K of data will take over two minutes to transfer.

10 bits per byte, 14400 bits per second = 1440 bytes per second, 71K = 72704
bytes, 72704 / 1440 ... takes 50.5 seconds. Over two minutes?

> Not a huge amount, but enough to be irksome; over long distance, that could

Agreed, but not grounds for calling someone "moron". Suppose it had been a
meg, what would they do then, hunt the poster down and kill him?

> For text-based lists, I generally avoid binaries if they're over 1K or so;
> other people have their 'mental limit' at about 60K/file.  Unless the PicList
> supports options to allow subscribers to automatically reject binaries from
> postings, I think the smaller limit (perhaps stretching it to 2-4K) is better.

Always good etiquette. I am not advocating posting binaries, just for a
certain amount of restraint and civility when faced with a minor inconvenience.
-dg

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