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Subject:	Re: Bionicle Avatar pictures flooding BrickShelf
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:26:30 GMT
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"tom" <tinosanto@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GpJI02.2Iu@lugnet.com... > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Stembel writes: > > Those are almost never seen and take up very little space, and thus • generate > > little bandwidth issues. :) > > This is the most flawed logic you have presented yet. When anything is > uploaded or altered it goes to the top of the recent page. And ack to > bandwith, the 100+kb non-lego pics take up MUCH more bandwidth than these > 3kb files. Storing a file on a server takes up no bandwidth [1]. Accessing that file through the internet remotely does. Chat avatars are accessed much more than a non-lego related image (most likely) because of the nature of the chat pages. That's taking up bandwidth. -Tim [1] Spare the bandwidth it took for the owner of the image to transmit it there.

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		Re: Bionicle Avatar pictures flooding BrickShelf
(...) And you have stats on what is being accessed how often? What takes more bandwith... a 3kb file being accesed 25 times on a 100+kb file being accessed two times? tom (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Bionicle Avatar pictures flooding BrickShelf
(...) Your felling they are abuse is because you do not like them, and they take up space for items you do like. Just so happens that there are many of these items you do not like. But they are lego related, like it or not - they are lego related (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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