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In message <osvime$co8$1@dont-email.me>, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> 
writes:
>JJ wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 10:32:03 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[]
>>>binary one. (And many newsservers  around the world - especially the 
>>>free ones like eternal-september - [a]  only handle text-only 
>>>newsgroups, [b] don't accept attachments in  those.)
>>  I wonder why news clients don't provide a (sneaky) workaround for 
>>this
>
>This falls under the general topic of
>
>   "What if I abuse USENET, what then?"
>
>type questions. It depends on the extent of the abuse, whether
>the abuse costs money, whether the abuse completely obliterates
>ordinary conversations, and so on.
>
>When some moron pointed his movie-posting software at a text-only
>newsgroup, he was cut off at the knees in a day or two.

Yes; text-only 'groups aren't text-only out of spite or an attempt to 
control: they're text-only to keep the total volume down. (Remember that 
news posts are downloaded many times.) Given that many news servers are 
free (I _still_ don't get the business model, but it obviously works), 
and others cheap (such as the Berlin one), this is significant.
[]
>Any time you abuse a text-only group, by posting images in it,
>if the method is "persistent", they can and will write a filter.
>Sometimes it takes months, for someone in the cabal to write
>a cancelbot, to stomp on certain kinds of abuse (floods). But
>eventually, the pool of server admins, someone will be
>interested enough in it, to stop it.

To stop it by filter, that is. The offending poster will be blocked 
somewhat sooner, in most cases, I suspect!
>
>When the movie-twits tried to abuse Howard (howardknight archive),
>Howard simply truncated large messages, ruining the archive and making
>it absolutely useless... And this is why we can't have
>nice things. Because you kids keep jumping on the sofa.

Nicely put (-:
[]
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The losses on both sides at Borodino [1812], 70 miles from Moscow, are the
equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing into an area of six square miles every five
minutes for the whole ten hours of the battle, killing or wounding everyone on
board. - Andrew Roberts on Napoleon, RT 2015/6/13-19

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Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2017-10-26 19:41 -0200
  Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-10-26 22:50 +0100
    Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2017-10-27 00:00 +0200
  Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] Mark Carson <Mark3324@noway.com> - 2017-10-26 21:14 -0400
    Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2017-10-27 10:32 +0100
      Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-10-27 20:55 +0700
        Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-10-27 10:17 -0400
          Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-10-28 10:15 +0700
        Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2017-10-27 11:17 -0400
          Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2017-10-27 17:05 +0100
      Re: Different Property - Details between Win7Pro and Enterprise - Capture.PNG (1/1) [106K] Mark Carson <Mark3324@noway.com> - 2017-10-27 19:12 -0400

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