My apologies to Les and the new staff of PDLJMPR. I wasn't thinking of
file sizes when I asked for more pics. I should have realized though,
that the best way to access these pics was as Amy Turner suggested "
Visit individual sites". I downloaded the multitude of pics from PDLJMPR
and made a personal travelling show of them. The file was huge (6
discs). I never dreamed that anyone else would have as many pics as I
do.
I would never want anything to happen to PDLJMPR that could cause a
problem. That site is at the top of my "favorites" list and I don't
think I've missed a word of it in the last 18 months or so. Keep up the
good work!
Bill Walters
On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:58:08 -0500 Les Myer <lmyer@probe.net> writes:
>Bill, do you realize what you just said? Please - nobody take
>offense,
>but Bill's post forces me to say the following:
>
>1) Few things are more irritating than waiting to receive a half-dozen
>unsolicited, uncompressed attached TIFF images amounting to several
>MB,
>when all you want is to check your e-mail on the way out the door.
>2) Sometimes images have to be manually de-coded before they can even
>be
>viewed.
>3) The scans sent are seldom appropriate sizing, file size, or file
>format
>for placement on the site without discussing things first. JPG files
>cannot be re-sized without degradation of the image. There are many
>different degrees of JPG compression - I try to keep each photo at
>exactly
>500 pixels wide, with a file size of no more than 40K. Other file
>formats
>are too big of files.
>4) Server space costs money - and outloads from the site is generally
>watched by the ISPs. Probe was very nice and gave me a great deal to
>host
>the web site because the manager always "lusted after a bugeye" (shell
>account for $9.95/mo, with no limits on downloads). Probe was
>recently
>bought by Radiks. I do not want to draw attention to the account by
>making
>it incredibly over-sized.
>5) As a general rule, I have tried not to place photos by themselves
>on
>PDLJMPR. Submissions are always more than welcome, but the site has
>traditionally been for stories that are accompanied by photos. There
>is
>only so much that can be done with a bare photo
>6) However, if you want to place a bunch of bare photos on your own
>web
>site and have PDLJMPR provide a single link and description to that
>content
>- that would work out really great.
>
>If images are to be sent to PDLJMPR, they should be cleared first with
>the
>interim PDLJMPR editor Bill Shickling (bugeye@dreamscape.com) and sent
>to
>him (not me). He's the man right now!
>
>Sorry if I sound like an ass, but this has the potential to get out of
>hand
>very quickly.
>
>Regards,
>
>Les Myer
>
>
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