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Trouble with WA0CKY messages
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:31:42 +0100, Asterix
wrote: In article , Geoff wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:13:28 +0000, WA0CKY wrote: I get lots of emails about my images but you're the only one reporting this problem. Note that I do not post these to USENET. Yet that is where you are seeing them. I don't have direct USENET access any more since my ISP dropped it years ago. The USENET postings are made by the website www.spacebanter.com from posts made to that site. The links go to proper web based format images. Sounds like your reader is assuming the images are in one of the USENET formats rather than web based. So displays them as a text file (7 bit rather than 8 bit). Try pasting the link into your web browser. That should read it without trouble. Or go directly to the web page http://www.spacebanter.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25 and view them there. Or find a USENET reader that can recognize and handle web based images. Rick bleak_fire_;1281135 Wrote: Hi, Every time I try and download WA0CKY's images, there are no attachments, instead the file appears in text form right beneath the description. I don't have this problem in any other binary group. I'm using 40tude Dialog. Has anyone else had this problem with WA0CKY's messages? Thank you! -- b.f. Links? What links? Spacebanter is posting them as UUEncoded attachments in the news servers. Your last post on Abell 1314 first attachment begins: "begin 666 ABELL1314L4X10RGB2X10R.JPG M_]C_X1TM17AI9@``24DJ``@````.```!`P`!````U````$!`P`! ````.`4`" [snip] There are no links back to your forum site in the messages. My news reader has no trouble decoding your image attachments. I may have a clue to the problem: In some newsreaders (e.g. MacSOUP), the first line of the attachment reads: ----- Rick-- WA0CKYbegin 666 ABELL1314L4X10RGB2X10R.JPG ----- Some newsreaders will have a hard time decoding that... In other newsreadrers (e.g. Thoth), the same line is split into: ----- Rick -- WA0CKY begin 666 ABELL1314L4X10RGB2X10R.JPG ----- So, I think spacebanter handles CR/LF in a non-standard way, that some newsreader can't handle. As an example, Opening the post in MacSOUP takes several minutes, and it displays an endless row of uuencoded text without any linefeeds. It wraps the code to fill the window. MacSOUP dosn't do decoding, by the way. Thoth handles and decodes the file properly, but if I try to "extract manually" without decoding, in the saved file the image shows up as a single line of code (i.e. no linefeeds). Trying an older post, Galaxy groups NGC 4410, 4411 Abell 1541 and others Thoth would download and decode the attachment properly, but crash trying to "extract manually" without decoding. I just could not save that one as text. Hope this helps illuminating the problem. I displayed the message in raw form in Agent, copy-pasted it into UltraEdit and looked at it in Hex and it has two cr/lf's following the WA0CKY. I don't know if they were transformed by Agent as it retrieved the message. Can you suggest a news client for OSX? I can check it on my MacBook Pro. |
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Trouble with WA0CKY messages
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:14:35 GMT, Skywise
wrote: Odd that this didn't start until someone complained. Darn those complainers anyway! They spoil it for everyone! Everything works fine until then. |
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Trouble with WA0CKY messages
Geoff wrote in
: On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:14:35 GMT, Skywise wrote: Odd that this didn't start until someone complained. Darn those complainers anyway! They spoil it for everyone! Everything works fine until then. I see what you did there. Brian -- http://www.earthwaves.org/forum/index.php - Earth Sciences discussion http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy, Skepticism Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? |
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Trouble with WA0CKY messages
Geoff wrote:
I displayed the message in raw form in Agent, copy-pasted it into UltraEdit and looked at it in Hex and it has two cr/lf's following the WA0CKY. I don't know if they were transformed by Agent as it retrieved the message. Can you suggest a news client for OSX? I can check it on my MacBook Pro. I'm using MacSOUP, which is text-only, and Thoth. You could also try Unison, which was recently released as freeware. -- I recommend Macs to my friends, and Windows machines to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour |
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Trouble with WA0CKY messages
On 2014-11-22 03:54:20 +0000, Anders Eklöf said:
Geoff wrote: I displayed the message in raw form in Agent, copy-pasted it into UltraEdit and looked at it in Hex and it has two cr/lf's following the WA0CKY. I don't know if they were transformed by Agent as it retrieved the message. Can you suggest a news client for OSX? I can check it on my MacBook Pro. I'm using MacSOUP, which is text-only, and Thoth. You could also try Unison, which was recently released as freeware. The WA0CKY posts all decode correctly in Unison. Nice program. Not as flexible as Forte Agent for getting at the guts of a post, but a nice tool. |
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Trouble with WA0CKY messages
Hello,
just for the record: Outlook Express decodes these pictures flawlessly. Stefan "bleak_fire_" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news Hi, Every time I try and download WA0CKY's images, there are no attachments, instead the file appears in text form right beneath the description. I don't have this problem in any other binary group. I'm using 40tude Dialog. Has anyone else had this problem with WA0CKY's messages? Thank you! -- b.f. |
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