Serious fault in XP

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Has anyone else had this?

I hope M$ will attend to it with the utmost haste.

purple1
 
Anthony Buckland said:
I hope you will be just a _tad_ more explicit.
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I tried to post a gif attachment of 5 aces in solitaire.

Is it possible to attach images?

purple1
 
I tried to post a gif attachment of 5 aces in solitaire.

Is it possible to attach images?
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Me tinks this depends on your news server and ISP.

Ain't dat-so you techie boiyz outa dare?
 
Patok said:
Why would this be considered a *serious* fault? Just a minor bug in a
fringe application, surely. :)



No,

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Thanks.

The error was real, the post was made in jest.

I was surprised to find an error in such a long established and widely
programme.
 
The error was real, the post was made in jest.

I was surprised to find an error in such a long established and widely
programme.
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I believe the issue is with servers, not applications, or even OSes. When MS
was running their NNTP servers, they had a size limit for attachments.

Because you are using 'nntp.aioe.org' for posting, you need to check with
them about what is allowed in posting. For starters, they specify a maximum
post size of 32 kb:

http://www.aioe.org/

I believe that is the overall post size, including text and headers, so
likely nothing much over a 15 kb image; assuming that they even allow
images.

As far as MSOE is concerned, I have sent large images attached. I have found
one email with a 147 kB .jpg image attached. I am pretty sure it wouldn't
make any difference if it was .png, .bmp, .gif, or whatever. But I no longer
have a system with MSOE installed to play with.
 
N. Miller said:
I believe the issue is with servers, not applications, or even OSes.
When MS
was running their NNTP servers, they had a size limit for attachments.
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No, the MS servers did not allow file attachments, period. In general,
no NNTP groups will allow attachments except for specially labeled
"binaries" groups. The rest are considered "text" newsgroups and do not
allow attachments.
 
No, the MS servers did not allow file attachments, period. In general,
no NNTP groups will allow attachments except for specially labeled
"binaries" groups. The rest are considered "text" newsgroups and do not
allow attachments.
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I am reasonably certain I saw some few posts through 'msnews.microsoft.com',
outside of their stationery groups, with image files attached. Groups, other
than binary, generally discourage binary posting. But it will be the server
operator who decides if attachments get posted, or dropped. I know
'news.sf.sbcglobal.net' dropped attachments for non-binary groups, even when
other NNTP services did not.
 
N. Miller said:
I am reasonably certain I saw some few posts through
'msnews.microsoft.com',
outside of their stationery groups, with image files attached. Groups,
other
than binary, generally discourage binary posting. But it will be the
server
operator who decides if attachments get posted, or dropped. I know
'news.sf.sbcglobal.net' dropped attachments for non-binary groups,
even when
other NNTP services did not.
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You're right about the stationery group allowing binary
attachments...they were a "binaries" group on the MS server, so it was
not a blanket ban by their server of binaries. I am not aware of any
other binary groups on the MS server though. They were not allowed on
any of the groups I visited, which was ALL the various OS groups, IE and
OE groups, even the media player groups did not allow attachments. So
it was the server operator who determined which, if any groups, would
allow attachments, as you said. I have not used any NNTP server that
allowed attachments in non-binary groups. Apparently from your
experience, there are some servers that did. The MS server did not,
that I am aware of.
Thanks for expanding my awareness about the policy of some of the
servers I did not have access to.
 
Has anyone else had this?

I hope M$ will attend to it with the utmost haste.

purple1
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You should get an award for this post.

The award for the most useless post ever placed on a newsgroup.
 
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