From: owner-full-fledged-strangers-digest@smoe.org (full-fledged-strangers-digest) To: full-fledged-strangers-digest@smoe.org Subject: full-fledged-strangers-digest V4 #38 Reply-To: full-fledged-strangers@smoe.org Sender: owner-full-fledged-strangers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-full-fledged-strangers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk full-fledged-strangers-digest Sunday, March 11 2001 Volume 04 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: pictures sent to the list [Tal Hurley ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:21:59 -0800 (PST) From: Tal Hurley Subject: Re: pictures sent to the list Well as I said to absolutely no response, there is a Yahoo club where people can post photos. Wonder if anyone got that email from me the other day. Anyway the club is at www.yahoo.com/clubs/jonathabrookeclub - --- Charlie Sweeney wrote: > HI all, > Marsha wrote: > >I have gotten requests for my photos but strangely > have > >not seen my own post yet. Others are having trouble > >posting too? > > There are a number of reasons why your post may not > have gone thru. > You may have used a proscribed word which will cause > a bounce to the > listowner. This happens when the server sees a word > that may be interpreted > as a request such as s@bscribe (substitute u for @). > There are other filters used to prevent spamming of > the list. > > It is not appropriate to send pictures (or other > attachments)thru the server > for a variety of reasons. Some of the reasons are: > > 1)Virus protection > 2)Bandwidth conservation (there are probably over > 25,000 folks on this > server) > 3)cost to s@bscribers - some folks (particularly in > other countries) pay for > their internet access by the kb or by the minute. It > takes a long time to > download pictures on a dial-up modem. If they are on > the list, they have no > choice but to receive the mail. > > To this end, software has been installed to strip > attachments, and certain > types of encoding. This software (demime 0.97) also > strips HTML encoding > leaving the message in a readable format, preventing > certain mail clients > (AOL 6.0, Outlook) from sending tagged and > unreadable messages which just > gum up the works and greatly increase bandwidth > requirements. > > The best solution is to query the list for someone > with server space > available, have them post your pictures to a > webpage, and then submit the > URL to the list. That way, all who wish to view or > download can do so at > their own discretion. > > HTH, > Charlie (=}===# > http://somethingblack.com > multiple listowner - smoe.org > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com > - ---------------------------------------------------------- > HELP! owner-full-fledged-strangers@smoe.org > Send mail to full-fledged-strangers@smoe.org Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - ---------------------------------------------------------- HELP! owner-full-fledged-strangers@smoe.org Send mail to full-fledged-strangers@smoe.org ------------------------------ End of full-fledged-strangers-digest V4 #38 ******************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This has been a posting from full-fledged-strangers-digest For help send e-mail to owner-full-fledged-strangers@smoe.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------