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From: Steve Shelby
Subject: Can't post file here
Date: 15 Mar 2004 07:39:45
Message: <4055a411@news.povray.org>
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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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: Can't post file here
Date: 15 Mar 2004 07:52:45
Message: <4055a71d$1@news.povray.org>
Program ended abnormally on 15/03/2004 07:39, Due to a catastrophic Steve Shelby 
error:
> 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

Binary files get uuencoded (converted to only have "printable" characters in 
them) before they're uploaded to newsgroups.  This process adds about 25% to the 
file size.  In your case, it's probably just a tad over the limit.

-- 
/*Francois Labreque*/#local a=x+y;#local b=x+a;#local c=a+b;#macro P(F//
/*    flabreque    */L)polygon{5,F,F+z,L+z,L,F pigment{rgb 9}}#end union
/*        @        */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/*   videotron.ca  */}camera{orthographic location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a }


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From: Steve Shelby
Subject: Re: Can't post file here
Date: 15 Mar 2004 13:03:55
Message: <4055f00b$1@news.povray.org>
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

"Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote in message
news:4055a71d$1@news.povray.org...
> Binary files get uuencoded (converted to only have "printable" characters
in
> them) before they're uploaded to newsgroups.  This process adds about 25%
to the
> file size.  In your case, it's probably just a tad over the limit.
>
> -- 
> /*Francois Labreque*/#local a=x+y;#local b=x+a;#local c=a+b;#macro P(F//
> /*    flabreque    */L)polygon{5,F,F+z,L+z,L,F pigment{rgb 9}}#end union
> /*        @        */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
> /*   videotron.ca  */}camera{orthographic location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a }


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