Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!poirier From: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Bimonthly s/ware postings || new group Summary: chill out Keywords: GIF, TIFF, PostScript, IFF, PIX, TLAs, RIFF, SPIFFy Message-ID: <1424@xyzzy.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 21:17:57 GMT References: <458@alias.UUCP> Sender: usenet@xyzzy.UUCP Reply-To: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 12 In article <458@alias.UUCP> rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis) writes: >What can we do to cut down the number of "can someone send me something >to convert pictures from GIF to PostScript" postings? The number of such requests may be large, but their size is small. It's not a bandwidth problem. Yeah, use 'k' && laugh it off. One of these days, *you* may be in the situation of joining a new group and not knowing the ropes. Subgroups intended for beginners' traffic tend to not work well, for the very reason of the participants' being beginners. Charles Poirier