This group is intended for questions about newsgroups and the internet.
Tests should only be posted to test groups such as news:misc.test or
news:alt.test .
A bigger problem, though, is that you posted binaries to a text group.
Binaries (pictures, sounds, anything other than pure ASCII text) should
only be posted to groups that include "binaries" as part of the name,
such as alt.binaries.test
Many servers will silently drop all binaries in non-binary groups, there
are cancelers who cancel them on sight, and if people complain to your
news provider you could lose your news account.
The reason for this is that binaries consume *huge* bandwidth. Posting
them where people don't expect to find them is rude, because it takes up
downloading time and space on hard drives, both for all the servers
carrying them and for all the readers looking at that group.
--
Kathy - help for new users at <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/>
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OE-quotefix can fix OE:
<http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/>