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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Attached files?
Yes, exchanging drawings is "the way to go" even in the "native language" -
even more here. I couldn't agree more. It's THE way.
But if you can post the thing on the web, what's the problem?
--- Carsten Standfuß <MerlinSub@t-online.de> wrote:
> Lew - I don't agree - I sometime send very small
> technical JPG black and white pictures to psubs show just a
> hatch or something in this size - and get figures in the 50-60 Kb area.
> if they are smaller all the details all lost.
> One reason that some of the psubers went to yellow sub
> design group for a short time was that there was the possibilty to
> exchange
> drawings - the language of technicans.
>
> Can you imagine how long it takes to describe a hatch lock device
> in english in plain text - even if your native language is french,
> italy, norway, german, spain, swedish, russian, china, japanese
> or north-corean...- .. a simple drawings shows more than thousand
> words.
>
> Ray - a database on Psub for DXF/DWG technical cad files and a
> link to volo view cad reader will maybe another way.. Somebody can
> send you drawings - and however like can download them from the
> database file ordner. There should be a mark that they use the
> drawings at there own risk.. There should be also a small JPG
> tumnail or description what the drawing contains.
>
> The rest of the side is great - and I have an older computer..
>
> Carsten
>
>
> Lew Clayman schrieb:
> >
> > Actually, Ray/Steve/others, even 40K attachments are a pretty generous
> rule.
> > I'm on several lists that ban attachments outright, for the reasons you
> state
> > and because they take so long to pull in on a slow connection when only
> some of
> > the list members will be interested in any given attachment. Better, they
> say,
> > to send then privately as-requested or to post them up someplace where the
> > interested can look at them.
> >
> > I'm not requesting a change, 40K seems to work ok so why mess with what
> works?
> > But there's no reason IMHO to raise the limit as there are alternatives
> with
> > most of the gain and little of the pain.
> >
> > -L
> >
> > --- Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@Sun.COM> wrote:
> > > Hi Steve,
> > >
> > > You can attach files. The only problem is that the total size of the
> email,
> > > including any attachements, has to be under 40kB.
> > >
> > > This limit was set as a precaution for our ISP. If someone sent
> > > a 2MB file to personal_submersibles@psubs.org it would be replicated
> > > over 200 times as it got forwarded to every listserver member.
> > > Very easy for a spammer to shut down the PSUBS server.
> > >
> > > Some ways around this is you can send it to me (ray@psubs.org).
> > > Then I'll put up on the web site. Except for this month I am not updating
> > > the web site.
> > >
> > > Another option is to state what you have and interested parties contact
> you
> > > personally. Then you can email it directly to them.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ray
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: "Steven Mills" <barycenter@earthlink.net>
> > > > To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> > > > Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Attached files?
> > > > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:48:24 -0800
> > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > > > X-Priority: 3
> > > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200
> > > >
> > > > I'm not clear on the policy for attaching files. I didn't
> > > > check on archives, so I'm asking here for
> > > > the sake of expediency. Should I give a warning shot
> > > > across the bow before sending anything, respond with
> > > > attachment only to the specific list-member, or send it for all
> > > > to receive?
> > > >
> > > > --Steve
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > =====
> > "All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in
> > doing this they have what ugliness is; they all know the
> > skill of the skilful, and in doing this they have what the
> > want of skill is."
> > - Tao Te Ching verse 2 (Legge translation)
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doing this they have what ugliness is; they all know the
skill of the skilful, and in doing this they have what the
want of skill is."
- Tao Te Ching verse 2 (Legge translation)
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