There are a couple of misguided bits of info in this mail. 1 - Winzip will
not (significantly) further compress JPG files. 2 - GIF is not smaller than
JPG - only in rare occasions, when there are fewer than 256 colours, large
square patterns of exactly (and I mean exactly) the same colour will a GIF
be smaller. Otherwise a GIF will still be 2 or 3 times bigger than a good
quality JPG.
 
Other things are true, however: there are usually limits on lists that
prevent attachments from over 64kb, message sizes of 64kb, and on some lists
no attachments at all can be broadcasted. Not only is this done because some
connections are slow, but not everyone uses an up-to-date browser that will
properly handle the attachment and turn up lots of garbage.
 
The suggestion to provide a link is best - I do that a lot, and if you send
the image to me I will post it up for everyone to take a look at. I have a
lightning-fast 250kb+/sec connection so it'd be a very small effort and the
site I host it on is very fast. My T.S. Eliot site is hosted there too (at
http://people.a2000.nl/avanarum/ ).
 
Kind regards,
 
Arwin
 
 
> Wayne,
> The listserver could be enforcing a limit on the size of
> attachments. FYI, on many other lists, you'd be flamed to a crisp
> for sending an attachment that size, because some folks still have
> very slow dialup connections or pay high rates for their online
> time or use mail readers whose attachment-handling capabilities
> are crude. It could take 20 minutes or more to bring down an image
> that size over a slower connection. When I receive large email
> attachments, they sometimes cause my ISP's mail server to fail to
> release a lock on my mailbox, and I have to make a phone call to
> tech support, remain on hold for ? minutes, and then get them to
> fix the problem.  While I am waiting for them to fix the problem,
> I continue to receive, over and over, mail I've already
> downloaded. Given such technical problems, the usual etiquette is
> to announce the availability of such an image and a willingness to
> send it directly to those who request it or to put it on a web
> site and announce the URL from where it may be downloaded. To make
> it smaller, you could compress it using WinZIP
> (http://www.winzip.com).  Or you could save it as a GIF after
> reducing its color depth.
> Tim Romano
>
> Wayne Pounds wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the confirmation, but no one has seen the
> > JPEG image I sent Friday? Excuse my persistance, but I
> > am sure this artist's work would be of great interest
> > to the ep list. I'll resend the image if necessary,
> > perhaps in another format or smaller size (the JPEG
> > was 400+)? Can someone with technical savoir faire
> > advise?
> >
> > Wayne
> > @Rapallo
> >