Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem
-- On 27 Mar 2003 at 21:10, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem > > I suspect that Usenet groups containing tens-o-megabyte files > are often blocked by ISPs (and public sources would be > overwhelmed). Also, wasn't Usenet plagued by evil > message-cancellers? Depends on your Usenet server. The usual limit I encounter is about ten megabytes for any one post. I routinely download five hundred megabyte video files using the PAR and RAR mechanism to get around the ten megabyte limit. Message cancellation has been cancelled by most servers. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zGNjNM42e2hEu8yIJrhenqbS0TkNf/6rzBfGJfBN 4YqqQnCTGeWDS3yBqZCEFGENvlML/3pgy37qawJDa
Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem
On Friday 28 March 2003 00:10, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > "Sometimes when you're in government you have to do things for the > people > whether they like it or not. That's what governing is all about," > said Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick. Hitlary, Chucklehead Schumer, the now-deceased Pat "Old Drunk" Moynihan, George Pataki, Al Sharpton, and now Joe Bruno. Tell ya, I'm damn proud to be a New Yorker. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape better than duct tape will get you through times of no guns. -- Ron Kuby
Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem
At 09:10 PM 3/27/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: "Sometimes when you're in government you have to do things for the people whether they like it or not. That's what governing is all about," said Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030327/1028333.asp Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem I suspect that Usenet groups containing tens-o-megabyte files are often blocked by ISPs (and public sources would be overwhelmed). Also, wasn't Usenet plagued by evil message-cancellers? Yes, people sometimes try to thwart postings, esp. muliti-part postings common for video. Speaking of which, I think you should visit Usenet sometime and look at the alt.binaries.multimedia hierarchy. People routinely post movies in Divx/avi, vcd, svcd and now even dvd format (we're talking about a full 4.3 GB disk!). If someone wanted to create a plug-in for popular multimedia viewers (e.g., RealOne or Windows Media Player) that could resolve and automatically assemble Usenet postings it could work very well (there are already a number of newsgroup readers out there specialized for such work) as a broadcast video tool for any commercial or non-commercial application. steve
