Re: [IRCA] POST SIZE

[Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Post size? Who the freaking hell knows!

As can be seen with my recent attempts in the past few weeks, I tried multiple different ways to get my posts through. I have to try three times now for anything to get through it seems. I also had a really long post. I split it into three different mails with a size that historically I KNEW would get through as I had sent longer ones before. Failed. Then I changed the subject line. Failed. But then an attempt would get through to the digest but not to individual mails to members. Eventually, on my second go-around with that crap, I split up my URLs so the server recognized it as normal text and not a link and left a note saying to take the spaces out of the URLs. And that succeeded. My feeling is that links to my domain have been blacklisted by the server recently. I cannot send any mails that link to my website (which include any of my files I share, DX or otherwise). This has been a rather recently development that I've never had issues with in the past. And it's getting on my nerves, predictably, as you would also seem to know now..

So I, too, would appreciate someone looking into the limitations of these archaic web mail servers from the 90s and what their limits are.

In addition, I need to type all my mails in Notepad because if I use my mail program, it changes the format from normal apostrophes to the sort of stylized ones, or a normal dash to a long dash, etc. (as MS Word would do if you're typing). All of these characters cannot be supported by the server and are changed to question marks, which we've all seen multiple times with many posters.

It's no wonder many such groups have migrated to Google or Yahoo, which also have their own downsides though.

My two cents on the matter anyway, from someone who deals with the same annoyances.

-Chris Kadlec
beaglebass.com/dx/seoul/



Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:47:11 -0800
From: Pete Taylor <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: IRCA <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] POST SIZE

Earlier, I wrote a two-page report about DXing during my Caribbean cruise. Because of known size limitations,, I split in to two parts and sent it to IRCA & NRC. The NRC edition came through but not the one for IRCA so I then split the report in to 3 parts and re-sent it. So far it looks like the smallest, part 2, came through but not parts 1 & 3.

This is a bit inane so I am wondering if there are any guidelines.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380

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