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Old 11-09-2009, 12:43 AM   #28
Karen
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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Default Re: Posting long passages of outside text is prohibited.

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Originally Posted by waitinginthewings View Post
Question: Since bandwith is a concern here, what about posting very large pictures, & sometimes many large pics in one post. What about posting You-tube vids, many of them in the same post. Do they not take up bandwith, the same as long text posts? Not picking on anyone here, just trying to understand what the limits are and are not.
It's not just about band width. It's more about respecting people's copyrights. I've made a lot of comments about the whys in previous posts in this thread. I supposed in a perfect world everything would be all lined up, cut and dried, but in this world there are grey areas, overlaps, etc, and you have to pick a point at which to draw the line. I'm just trying to do the best we can with the guidelines the way I found them when I came on as moderator. It's a pretty standard set of guidelines for maintaining order in online bulletin boards, email discussion groups, and internet forums.

Here's a link to the guidelines:
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