GMCnetters,
Looks like the "reply-to" is fixed now. In addition, the filter is in once
again in place to reject "multi-part"(HTML, attachments, etc.) emails.
Another change is that "bounces" apparently go back to the sender now
instead of coming to me. There should be an explanation - probably
slightly cryptic - as to why it bounced. If you're subscribed and you get a
bounce saying you must be a member to post, be sure that you're using the
same address you're subscribed at. I'll be adding a line to the "trailer"
with your subscribed address as a reminder. Also look for server names that
sometimes get inserted into your "From" headers(usually a sign that you
haven't properly set the "From" address in your email software) which will
also cause a bounce. An example would be user becoming
user
Some of the problems with HTML and pictures have already been reported by
the digest subscribers. ANY format other than plain text requires more than
twice the bandwidth(including storage in the archives). Since the headers
are stripped for both the digest and the archives, both HTML posts and
binary attachments(i.e. pictures) appear as a jumble of HTML tags and text
hash. IMO, HTML is totally unnecessary for email. It's
basically an attempt by the sender to dictate the appearance of a document
on my desktop. To quote a long forgotten contributor to Usenet, "I put
great forethought into the select of fonts for my email software, and I
don't appreciate your attempts to change them." If you want to be creative,
do so on your own computer.
Now, about pictures. The average plain text email is about 1kb. A 20%
compressed jpeg in 640x480 resolution is going to be around 70kb. There are
about 400 subscribers to GMCnet(approx. 240 on digest). When you send that
70kb picture, you just made 400 copies of it and at least 240 of those are
illegible. If for some reason, that picture was is bitmap format, it would
probably be near 1mb and you would have just consumed over .4Gb of internet
resources. My "home" email inbox has a 3mb limit and in the six years that
I've had the account, it's only been maxed once(countless close calls tho').
There simply isn't room for a couple dozen of you to start sending graphics
thru GMCnet and I certainly can't archive hundreds of unviewable graphics.
Photopoint is a much better way to handle these.
Sorry to rant a bit(it was a stressful weekend), but there are reasons that
I've set things up the way they are.
Your friendly neighborhood GMCnet admin,
Patrick
Looks like the "reply-to" is fixed now. In addition, the filter is in once
again in place to reject "multi-part"(HTML, attachments, etc.) emails.
Another change is that "bounces" apparently go back to the sender now
instead of coming to me. There should be an explanation - probably
slightly cryptic - as to why it bounced. If you're subscribed and you get a
bounce saying you must be a member to post, be sure that you're using the
same address you're subscribed at. I'll be adding a line to the "trailer"
with your subscribed address as a reminder. Also look for server names that
sometimes get inserted into your "From" headers(usually a sign that you
haven't properly set the "From" address in your email software) which will
also cause a bounce. An example would be user becoming
user
Some of the problems with HTML and pictures have already been reported by
the digest subscribers. ANY format other than plain text requires more than
twice the bandwidth(including storage in the archives). Since the headers
are stripped for both the digest and the archives, both HTML posts and
binary attachments(i.e. pictures) appear as a jumble of HTML tags and text
hash. IMO, HTML is totally unnecessary for email. It's
basically an attempt by the sender to dictate the appearance of a document
on my desktop. To quote a long forgotten contributor to Usenet, "I put
great forethought into the select of fonts for my email software, and I
don't appreciate your attempts to change them." If you want to be creative,
do so on your own computer.
Now, about pictures. The average plain text email is about 1kb. A 20%
compressed jpeg in 640x480 resolution is going to be around 70kb. There are
about 400 subscribers to GMCnet(approx. 240 on digest). When you send that
70kb picture, you just made 400 copies of it and at least 240 of those are
illegible. If for some reason, that picture was is bitmap format, it would
probably be near 1mb and you would have just consumed over .4Gb of internet
resources. My "home" email inbox has a 3mb limit and in the six years that
I've had the account, it's only been maxed once(countless close calls tho').
There simply isn't room for a couple dozen of you to start sending graphics
thru GMCnet and I certainly can't archive hundreds of unviewable graphics.
Photopoint is a much better way to handle these.
Sorry to rant a bit(it was a stressful weekend), but there are reasons that
I've set things up the way they are.
Your friendly neighborhood GMCnet admin,
Patrick
