alt.binaries.models.scale

willshak wrote: : : Should we just abandon a.b.m.s and post model pictures on one of the : free picture hosting services? : That's probably a good idea. As you note, few news providers carry the "alt" groups.

A photo hosting service where you can paste in a URL is going to be a lot more flexible, I'd think.

Bruce

The provider I use does not keep binaries (free service, so there has to be a limit).

I have access to ABMS...I just haven't been building, therefore I got no pictures to post.

OK, Thanks. Over the years, I have posted a lot of model pics over in a.b.m.s of some models built some 30+ years ago and some newly built models, but apparently, very few from here either never saw them or responded that they did see them. Not that I am looking for complements, but just an acknowledgment that someone had seen them and I wasn't wasting my time and bandwidth. I have hundreds of built models, mostly 1/35 WWII military armor, vehicles, and figures, and also 1/72 WWI and WWII aircraft and some armor and vehicles, stored in a dozen under-bed plastic storage boxes dating back to 1976. I like looking at them and thought others would too.

Sure Bill, we all like looking at models and yours would interest everyone. I kind of suspected that nobody was coming over to abms any more when no one commented on my last post.

Bill Banaszak

i get it, too.

Mad Modeller wrote the following:

I really like a.b.m.s, rather than the free pic sites. It's just so much easier and I don't have to leave usenet to see pictures. I save hundreds of keystrokes a day by not clicking through all the steps in the free pic hosting sites just to see a pic. I subscribe to four binary newsgroups, a.b.m.s, a.b.p.woodworking, a.b.p.autos, and a.b,p.military. I pay $65.95 a year, or $5.50 a month for 5.37 GB monthly access, so I can visit and post in any binary group I choose. The most I have ever used in one month was 1.19 GB. Most GB used is from a.b.p.auto and a.p.b.military.