Xbiz promoting newsgroup reseller?

[Jim]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Jim, the filtering bothers me because if I took images from usenet and just put them on my site, I would get my ass banned all over the place and have content providers send C&Ds all over. Filtering, the showing of images without the context is a real problem. NO 2257, no license, no contract... usenet wide open with the end user doing the filtering is UP TO THE USER. When the usenet provider has built in filtering, thumbnailers, and generally allows people to quickly enjoy content without context, well, they pass the line.

Just one of those things.

Alex

I agree with this but, as Greenie asks in his own little way Is he just making it easier to access the images or is he downloading them?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Jim

I agree with this but, as Greenie asks in his own little way Is he just making it easier to access the images or is he downloading them?

Usenet content is being displayed on an Internet web page.
I don't see any practical way for that to be done without downloading the messages from Usenet and saving them to a database for access by a web server. I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong, but I seriously doubt that the images are converted from UUE, BASE64, etc., then thumbnailed, and displayed in real time for every browser request. That would be a huge processing load on the server.

[eroticusenet]

Originally Posted by Toby

Usenet content is being displayed on an Internet web page.
I don't see any practical way for that to be done without downloading the messages from Usenet and saving them to a database for access by a web server. I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong, but I seriously doubt that the images are converted from UUE, BASE64, etc., then thumbnailed, and displayed in real time for every browser request. That would be a huge processing load on the server.

As I've mentioned several times in this discussion thread, we provide realtime access to Usenet newsgroups, so your comment about saving content to a database is incorrect.

Usenet services do require a lot of servers, bandwidth, processing capacity, etc., so it's not a casual undertaking. You're correct on that point.

We've been providing Usenet services to retail and commercial customers for the past 12 years, so we've had the benefit of being able to gradually grow our infrastructure (hardware, bandwidth, etc.) along with our customer base.

That's one of the nice advantages of our service... a webmaster could add newsgroup access to their website, without having to locally operate a hardware/software infrastructure that's taken us 12 years to establish.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by eroticusenet

...That's one of the nice advantages of our service... a webmaster could add newsgroup access to their website, without having to locally operate a hardware/software infrastructure that's taken us 12 years to establish.

Then you're telling us that you actually do convert Usenet encoded images (UUE, BASE64, etc.) to JPG format and thumbnail them on the fly every single time a user requests a thumbnail sorted page? Just a simple yes or no answer please, I grow weary of the song & dance and sales pitch.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by eroticusenet

That's one of the nice advantages of our service... a webmaster could add newsgroup access to their website, without having to locally operate a hardware/software infrastructure that's taken us 12 years to establish.

But WHY would a webmaster WANT to add newsgroup access to their site? Should we be convincing our surfers to go elsewhere to troll for free images rather than selling them on paysites?