[Milsurplus] photos

WA5CAB at cs.com WA5CAB at cs.com
Sun Dec 6 11:55:14 EST 2015


Well, TANSTAAFL.  It all has to be paid for some way or other.

In a message dated 12/06/2015 09:58:10 AM Central Standard Time, 
w2hx at w2hx.com writes: 
> I think prohibiting pictures is a bit of an anachronism. A throwback to a 
> time when bandwidth and disk space were not trivial as they are today. 
> There are many list servers that allow all of this. Even QTH, run and 
> supported (hopefully) by hams allows pictures inline or as attachments, depending 
> on what switches you throw in the list set up.  
> 
> Listserve.com is a REAL anachronism (since 1995)! They were probably one 
> of the very very first ISPs and probably had a room full of modems for 
> people to connect to using SLIP and later PPP (do you remember those dark 
> times!?). I have no idea how they can still be surviving selling what others have 
> been giving away for many years. More power to 'em!
> 
> Lots of mailing lists are now supporting this and those that don’t run the 
> risk of becoming outmoded at some point in time. I think Darwin was the 
> first to figure that out.  The horse-and-buggy companies were very upset when 
> the automobile came around.
> 
> 73 Eugene W2HX
>  

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