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Peter:
Nearly simultaneously with the numerous corrupted files that were being automatically created and posted, I was aware of the problem. I was taking measures, for example, deleting files and turning off Windows windows. After the computer locked up for lack of RAM, I rebooted the machine. Eventually, I deleted the all the bad files. It appears as if all the bad files have been deleted from my local Mozilla Thunderbird and Outlook Express programs. I checked my Verizon DSL email account and no bad files exist there either. Due to the current account setup on the Verizon DSL server DSL automatically deleted the email files as spam prior to my receiving them; and what happened to the files beyond that, I don't know. Whether the newsgroup files go through and get screened at Verizon I don't know. I'll run a Symantec full AV and registry scan, and I'll clear out the bad temp files. Then, hopefully, I'll be able to be sure the files posted will be ok. Sorry for the troubles caused. Ralph Hertle Peter Hucker wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:24:54 GMT, (Asterix) wrote: It appears that along with the drawing (a 646K TIFF file) you posted two more TIFF files 64MB and 47MB in size (which I haven't looked at so I don't really know if they *are* TIFFs). There may be more - I just looked what came though Easynews' decoder. Sorry - but deleting won't help very much as most news servers don't honor cancels. I opened the first of the two large files and saw a tiff of very high resolution. I didn't see a small file. Peter Hucker |
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Rick:
That's my lesson learned. Thanks. Does a set of ethics rules and suggestions for posting exist for, A.B.P.A? If not, why not edit your ideas and post them under the appropriate Subject? I'll heed your concerns. I had previously downloaded large TIFF files from NASA, etc., via the web, and I now see that the TIFF files and large sizes are not useful for the A.B.P.A server storage or for display. JPEG files are mostly used for display on web sites. TIFF files, however, can be made uncompressed at 24 or 32 bits per pixel, and are most common for large full color raster image storage or for print publications. If JPEG works, that is fine with me. Thanks, Ralph Hertle Rick Johnson wrote: NEVER POST TIF If you just must a TIF available post it to the net then give us the URL. [text omitted] |
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Ralph Hertle wrote: snip JPEG files are mostly used for display on web sites. TIFF files, however, can be made uncompressed at 24 or 32 bits per pixel, and are most common for large full color raster image storage or for print publications. If JPEG works, that is fine with me. JPEG does cause some image degradation, depending on the size-versus-quality choices made when saving the file. But there are "lossless" compression methods, like LZW, RLE, and ZIP, whose archives expand to a perfect copy of the original. These can be especially effective on images that contain mostly flat colours without texture or shading -- such as many diagrams and plots. In some cases they can produce smaller files than even quite aggressive JPEG compression can, without any of the artifacts or loss of legibility. The TIFF format provides for these encodings, but not all viewers support them. At any rate few browsers or news clients can do anything at all with TIFFs other than download them to be viewed in another app. Both the GIF and PNG image formats use lossless compression while being quite Net-friendly (PNG, being newer, somewhat less so) and can achieve remarkable reductions in the file size of non-photographic images without sacrificing detail. GIF uses a colour palette no more than 8 bits deep; PNG supports 24-bit colour plus an eight-bit alpha (transparency) channel. See if the software you're using to create drawings can export in one of these; if not, there are many free applications & utilities that can convert your TIFFs. -- Odysseus |
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The TIFF files from my scope's shots are 45 megabytes in size, way too
big for posting. I post them in JPG format as 8 bit files are all that can be seen on a computer monitor anyway. If someone wants to see the TIFF, only happened once, I post it to a private web page and email them the URL. Or you could make it public if you wish. Just that no one is remotely interested in the TIFF. And it would take me all night to upload it anyway. No FAQ, most lurk before posting and pick up the idea of what's appropriate -- that is, do as the other posters do. If thinking of something different -- ask. Sometimes GIF for animations or PGN for special cases. Many live in remote locations due to the nature of astronomy and are limited in speed so large files are usually marked as such. If posting photos available on other sites like NASA images just use the URL. If posting a large movie then post it to a web page and just post the URL he "Movie of gasses moving down the tail of Comet Swan is at: http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/astrophotos/SWAN_10-28-06_0104UT_3X1_B3x3large.gif" Note I even note the large nature of the file in the URL. Every now and then someone drops off a zillion photos from the net we've all seen and again hogs the server wiping out posts not available elsewhere on the net. It creates a lot of ire. I have accidently started to post a tiff instead of the JPG. When it didn't stop when it should have I knew something was wrong and hit the internet lock button on my firewall that's always in a corner of the screen. It stops all internet activity instantly, no need to reboot. The posting program then just stops, giving an error message that it lost the internet. In this case it gave the name of the file it was sending which showed me what I'd done. With no end of file signal the server ignored it and it never showed. Whew! Rick Ralph Hertle wrote: Rick: That's my lesson learned. Thanks. Does a set of ethics rules and suggestions for posting exist for, A.B.P.A? If not, why not edit your ideas and post them under the appropriate Subject? I'll heed your concerns. I had previously downloaded large TIFF files from NASA, etc., via the web, and I now see that the TIFF files and large sizes are not useful for the A.B.P.A server storage or for display. JPEG files are mostly used for display on web sites. TIFF files, however, can be made uncompressed at 24 or 32 bits per pixel, and are most common for large full color raster image storage or for print publications. If JPEG works, that is fine with me. Thanks, Ralph Hertle Rick Johnson wrote: NEVER POST TIF If you just must a TIF available post it to the net then give us the URL. [text omitted] -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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It would appear Supernews blcoked both the original messages and
the cancels, probably caught by one of their kagillions of filters. Probably thought it was a flood. (which it really was if you think about it) Brian -- http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy, Skepticism Seismic FAQ: http://www.skywise711.com/SeismicFAQ/SeismicFAQ.html Quake "predictions": http://www.skywise711.com/quakes/EQDB/index.html Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? |
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Peter Hucker wrote in news:0a60n39c1850v2br3h7dcevd6rprr9csl8
@4ax.com: Get yourself a proper server. Mine keeps the last x days of posts, Snipola Each NSP has their own set of retention rules. Being a binaries group, the most common rule is likely a byte cap. Text groups usually have a message count cap. What that cap is depends on their storage space and what they feel is important. Sometimes they leave things at a (low) default until someone brings to the admins attention that a particular group is popular and needs more space. What is the distance from your phone exchange to your house? They can send it a long long way nowadays. It gets longer every year with new technology. Just as a point of reference, I tried getting DSL at my house about two years ago. Didn't work. Too far. I was measured as being 27K feet from the SO, nearly twice as far as the signal could go. Oh, and I live in that big mess on the left coast known as the Los Angeles basin. The nearest "boonies" is 20 miles away from me. Brian -- http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy, Skepticism Seismic FAQ: http://www.skywise711.com/SeismicFAQ/SeismicFAQ.html Quake "predictions": http://www.skywise711.com/quakes/EQDB/index.html Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? |
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Ralph Hertle wrote in news:47702EF0.6080103
@verizon.net: Rick: That's my lesson learned. Thanks. Does a set of ethics rules and suggestions for posting exist for, A.B.P.A? Specifically? There may be a FAQ on file somewhere. As there is a control message on file for the group, some rules may be posted in that message. That control message is on file here... ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control...tures.astro.gz But there doesn't appear to be any rules listed nor info on locating a FAQ. So that leaves us with a general answer. I recommend reading the following two articles... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Brian -- http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy, Skepticism Seismic FAQ: http://www.skywise711.com/SeismicFAQ/SeismicFAQ.html Quake "predictions": http://www.skywise711.com/quakes/EQDB/index.html Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? |
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"Rick Johnson" wrote in message ... Your huge post knocked 3 months of other folks real posts off my server. Anything sent prior to your post was deleted as was nearly all but the last couple hundred files of your post. The rest exceeded the allocated disk space the server has for this group. Don't hog the server for yourself and knocks others off. My filters must be working correctly, because the only posts I saw from that person was his apology. George |
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George:
George wrote: "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ... Your huge post knocked 3 months of other folks real posts off my server. Anything sent prior to your post was deleted as was nearly all but the last couple hundred files of your post. The rest exceeded the allocated disk space the server has for this group. Don't hog the server for yourself and knocks others off. My filters must be working correctly, because the only posts I saw from that person was his apology. That was my post that had the apology. Thank you. Regarding Rick's server, I can offer no help. I can't understand the type of problem. I had earlier installed the program called DAP, or, Download Accelerator Plus. Previously I have had good success with that program for downloading, opening archives, and moving downloaded files to user created folders. It is also faster than other methods and is easy to use. Well, I've exhausted my mental means on the matter. I'll just get on with the fun of seeing the stars and, A.B.P.A . BTW: I did some extra reading on the USENET and binary participants in the USENET system. These are only some of the many possible sources for additional information. The Usenet is a hugely complex system that involves the history of the computer industry. I read, however, I need a college course to understand it. Thank you. Ralph Hertle Usenet --- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet [excerpts quoted:] " One notable difference from a BBS or web forum is that there is no central server, nor central system owner. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers which store and forward messages to one another. These servers are loosely connected in a variable mesh.[clarify] Individual users usually read from and post messages to a local server operated by their ISP, university or employer. The servers then exchange the messages between one another, so that they are available to readers beyond the original " " The standard method of uploading binary content to Usenet is to first archive the files into RAR archives (for large files usually in 20 MB or 50 MB parts) then create Parchive files. Parity files are used to recreate missing data. This is needed often, as not every part of the files reach a server. These are all then encoded into yEnc and uploaded to the selected binary groups. " These are some miscellaneous readings that lead to a huge selection of sources of information: http://www.binaries4all.com/beginners/ General information. http://www.usenetnewsgroup.net/ General information. http://www.usenetbinaries.com/ That is a GUI software product for binary and text newsgroups. Has many features. For local paying subscribers. Limited file sizes except that they also have a web server for large files. Access all Usenet and Usenet binaries. Has thumbnails and videos. My comment: Seeing that the program works with all possible news groups in the Usenet the optional sophisticated GUI is the probable future for the Usenet, for binaries and for A.B.P.A . |
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Rick Johnson:
Thanks for your observations. I have yet to read your recent post, and that is of interest. I found this information regarding this same site. That's where the a.b.p.a data are stored. Ralph Hertle .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . From: http://www.binaryfeeds.com/search.ph...pname&or der= NEWSGROUP - alt.binaries.pictures.astro ARTICLES - 6284 SERVERS - 3 SERVER HEADERS SPEED POST free-text.usenetserver.com 6284 2364k/s NO news.readfreenews.net 1609 722k/s NO allnews.readfreenews.net 339 722k/s NO .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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