Binaries

In message , Dirk Belcher writes

I don't have the thread at all. I've got a limit on the size of news articles I will accept, which automatically rejects most binaries. After all, the maximum size for a text message is somewhere around 5K, and binaries can be significantly bigger than that.

It happens because people post binaries. The ban on binaries is in the charter, but there is nothing to enforce the charter except for the way you configure your newsreader, or some ISPs who can get very shirty with their customers if someone complains.

No, you shouldn't worry about it unless you're on a slow dial-up line and paying a fortune for your net access. If you're on broadband you should be OK.

Depends whether your ISP/news server filters them out. If you're worried, ask them.

Er..... what thread entitled "FS: British Railway Decapod".

Ditto!!!!

Most good newservers will filter out binary attachments to a non-binary newsgroup, considered very bad manners to post such items ... fills up servers with junk pushing out other posts, folks on dial-up connections get screwed.

Bit like posting in html really.

If you want to show a pic ... upload it to some webspace then post a short descriptive *text* post to the relevant newsgroup with a link to the uploaded pic(s).

Ah - that'll be why I didn't see the original posting referred to - PlusNet have a good news-server.

Assuming Philip Meech was the original culprit - no, you're not allowed to post binaries, but you are allowed to advertise items for private sale. See the newsgroup charter posted to this group periodically, and available from

(a) One with .binaries. in the name. (b) Not with a picture attached.

When I was at school, "Fling" was a popular brand of carbonated soft drink.

"John Sullivan" wrote

I'm afraid I'll have to take your word for that. I do remember Cresta though - it's frothy, man!

Whatever happened to Dandelion & Burdock and Irn-Bru?

Wasn't that a Vauxhall?

The message from MartinS contains these words:

Tizer, anyone?

The Appetizer! Forgot that one!

Can still get it at Safeway, but it's not as good as the old Lowcocks stuff I used to get in glass bottles when I was a kid. Morrissons do it too, but it's a bit like trying to drink treacle, and it carries a high risk of giving the drinker diabetes after one glass, there's that much sugar in it. :o(

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Safeway IS Morrison's and you can get em sugar free

anyway if you specifically want to post pictures

try alt.binaries.pictures.rail

-- Regards Gray

Pictures at

Alive and well. Amazingly it appeared in my local Sainsbury's (near Croydon) a few months ago, and they now have it regularly. Beats cola!

Ack chew welly we can get them in Canada made under licence from Barr's, but a teeny ~300ml bottle costs more than a 2L bottle of private-brand pop. Our local supermarket is currently selling generic 2L pop at ~26p.