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I've been trying to post an animation to povray.binaries.animations, and it
keeps getting rejected. At first I thought it was because the attachment was
too big, because I get this message:
Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Blow yer mind, dude',
Account: 'news.povray.org', Server: 'news.povray.org', Protocol: NNTP,
Server Response: '441 Articles may not be larger than 1000000 bytes', Port:
119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 441, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9
But my file is only 876 kb, and I looked at other posts and there are many
which ar larger than that. What could be wrong?
Steve Shelby
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Steve Shelby wrote:
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> But my file is only 876 kb, and I looked at other posts and there are many
> which ar larger than that. What could be wrong?
I think the problem is the encoding of news messages. If I recall
correctly news posts are encoded using uuencoding, which uses only the
lowest 7 bits of each byte, wasting 1/8 of the space it consumes. That
would make your post at-least 1025171 bytes.
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Thank you for the explanation. As it turns out, compressing the file enough
to make it acceptable to the newsgroup pretty much ruins it, so I'm going to
try to set up a link on the web instead.
Steve Shelby
"Edward Coffey" <eco### [at] swiftdsl comau> wrote in message
news:4055a646@news.povray.org...
> Steve Shelby wrote:
> ...
> > But my file is only 876 kb, and I looked at other posts and there are
many
> > which ar larger than that. What could be wrong?
>
> I think the problem is the encoding of news messages. If I recall
> correctly news posts are encoded using uuencoding, which uses only the
> lowest 7 bits of each byte, wasting 1/8 of the space it consumes. That
> would make your post at-least 1025171 bytes.
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