Re: [IRCA] POST SIZE

[Volodya S <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris and Pete, join the club!  This is an argument that falls on deaf
ears.  I and many others are regularly thwarted by these insane size
limitations.  When I return from one of my DXpeditions in Masset, where I
do not have internet access, my logs are pretty long, and I think pretty
interesting.  Time and time again, Iâve had them rejected due to file
size.  I think the argument may be that one person is still on dial up, so
we have to be cognizant of that.  I reached the point of giving up on
posting to IRCA for that reason when I have lengthy postings.  Iâdlove to
hear officially from someone in charge, or perhaps going to a vote, as so
many groups have done recently!  Walt Salmaniw

On Sunday, January 21, 2018, Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 o
>  n 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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