May I email the Group Moderator?

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Wrong. Take your proselytizing elsewhere. If it was indeed prohibited,
Microsoft could easily have blocked binaries from appearing here.
 
David said:
No, Microsoft ALLOWS posting attachments to their News Server,
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, to
support problem resolution. While NO Microsoft News Group has the
word 'binaries' in the name, the MS News Groups are semi-autonomous
of the standard UseNet and allow attachments.
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Just as a point of order here.

1) I think you will find that 99.9% of the news servers out there allow
posting attachments, regardless of what is considered Usenet best practices.
Allowed and appropriate are two completely different things.

2) microsoft.public.pocketpc.binaries does exist, so to say that there are
"NO Microsoft News Group(s)" with binaries in the name is wrong.

3) The closest thing to official I will say is this: Personally, I agree
that posting binaries to a non-binaries newsgroup shouldn't be done.
However, I'm not about to create binaries newsgroups for our hierarchies
(mostly because of the issues of what level do you put it at, how do you
'police' it, etc) so I'm not going to stand in the way of people posting
binaries in order to help them solve their issues. However, if you're going
to say 'not too large,' try actually giving a number. When I supported
Microsoft Access, I would have customers say that their database was pretty
big, when in the end it would fit on a floppy, whereas I would regularly get
calls on 50+MB databases. 'Not too large' to some is too large to others.

John Eddy
Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator
 
Thank you John for an "authorative" Microsoft voice on this subject matter.
{ NNTP-Posting-Host: tide97.microsoft.com 213.199.128.155 }

From what I have seen greater than ~75KB is filtered and does not get posted.

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Dave




| David H. Lipman wrote:
| >>> There is NO public moderator of this News Group.
| >>>
| >>> If you have a graphic and it is not too large post it in JPEG
| >>> format and a description of your problem and someone will help you.
| >>
| >> W R O N G.
| >>
| >> This is a text newsgroup. It is not appropriate to upload an image
| >> to this board. Don't encourage folks to do inappropriate activities!
| >
| > No, Microsoft ALLOWS posting attachments to their News Server,
| > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, to
| > support problem resolution. While NO Microsoft News Group has the
| > word 'binaries' in the name, the MS News Groups are semi-autonomous
| > of the standard UseNet and allow attachments.
|
| Just as a point of order here.
|
| 1) I think you will find that 99.9% of the news servers out there allow
| posting attachments, regardless of what is considered Usenet best practices.
| Allowed and appropriate are two completely different things.
|
| 2) microsoft.public.pocketpc.binaries does exist, so to say that there are
| "NO Microsoft News Group(s)" with binaries in the name is wrong.
|
| 3) The closest thing to official I will say is this: Personally, I agree
| that posting binaries to a non-binaries newsgroup shouldn't be done.
| However, I'm not about to create binaries newsgroups for our hierarchies
| (mostly because of the issues of what level do you put it at, how do you
| 'police' it, etc) so I'm not going to stand in the way of people posting
| binaries in order to help them solve their issues. However, if you're going
| to say 'not too large,' try actually giving a number. When I supported
| Microsoft Access, I would have customers say that their database was pretty
| big, when in the end it would fit on a floppy, whereas I would regularly get
| calls on 50+MB databases. 'Not too large' to some is too large to others.
|
| John Eddy
| Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator
|
|
|
|
|
 
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