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- From: mossap@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Moss A D)
- Newsgroups: alt.wolves
- Subject: Re: - sierra.gif (0/3) [341x224x2**8] <Photograph>
- Message-ID: <7702@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:53:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.185337.18234@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1jkotoINN9k@cumin.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan20.185337.18234@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, ebynum@panini.cs.jhu.edu (Evan Bynum) writes:
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- >|> Hey folks,
- >|>
- >|> As promised, here's a GIF for ya. It's taken from the "Wilderness 1992
- >|> Sierra Club Engagement Calendar." The caption for the photo was cut off by
- >|> the scanner; it reads, "Gray wolf near Escanaba River State Forest, Upper
- >|> Peninsula, Michigan. By Daniel Cox."
- >
- > Thanks. Nice picture.... MORE! MORE!
-
- I'll second that!
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- >
- >|> Yeah, yeah. Why didn't I post it as a JPEG, you ask. Well, I
- >|> personally hate JPEGs. They's awfully slow to decode, many monitors can't
- >|> display 24-bit color, and there's no need to save bandwidth on *this* group.
- >|> I figure the more activity here the better, lest alt.wolves is cancelled.
- >
- > Well, I prefer JPEGS, but that's only because (usually) the files are
- >smaller which means less files for me to cut up and stick together... Plus of
- >course the JPEG eats up less of my quota :)
-
- I, personally prefer JPEG files too, 'cos they're so small, but I'd only have to convert them to GIFs again to view 'em... {8-)
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- > However, I'll grant you a GIF is far more preferable to no pic at all!
- >
- >|> This brings me to my next point. I'll be posting more of these
- >|> pictures (unless, of course, you prefer to see "0 unread articles" all the
- >|> time) later on. Just give me some time to get the pics and scan them in.
- >
- > Good.. I'll be waiting :)
-
- And me also! Much as I hate to agree with Xolf three times in a row... :-)
- Nice to see a bit more activity on this group...
-
- - Adam
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- | "I turned my screen on very late last Tuesday. |
- | And I thought I saw the face of an angel, |
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- | It looked nothing like a reflection, as I recall. |
- | And, more to the point, I had not programmed it |
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- | - The Piman |
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- |Adam D. Moss / SMAUG / Riff-Raff / mossap@essex.ac.uk|
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