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Be advised that all email to the list must be sent as "plain text". Files sent as HTML format are disposed of by the system with no notification to you or the list owner, so you're left wondering why you can't post. Check into whether you are sending plain text or HTML, and you may find your answer. Many email clients default to HTML, so you'll be shooting blanks when you post to CorvAircraft.

You can attach a small (kb-wise) photo to the list. The limit on a photo plus the size of the email is 500KB, which means 450k is probably the limit on a photo when coupled with a four or five paragraph email. Most photos come out of the camera at 1-10MB, so you'll need to shrink the picture down to something like 640x400 dpi and compress it a bit to get under 100k. The reason for limiting size is that first off it's a pain in the butt to receive a 4000x3000 dpi picture, which when opened shows only a tiny part of the photo on your computer, so you have to scroll around to see tiny bits of it, or you need some kind of photo app to see it all at once. Another reason is that some folks on this list are in the outback of Australia, BFE, or somewhere similar, and still use a slow dialup to get internet. I don't want to kill those guys off the list with a bunch of huge photos. Ever been on vacation with a really slow internet connection and somebody sends you a 5MB file? It's not a good day! There's plenty of free software out on the web that will resize and compress images, so use one of these before posting photos. Compression should be set to something like 70% to reduce the size substantially without too much image degradation. We're all building airplanes, I'm sure you can deal with this. One such program is Irfan View, which is well supported, full-featured, public domain, and free download. There are lots more out there. This jpeg download ability should be considered "on probation" until I'm convinced it's not going to be too painful. If you get a message back that says your photo is waiting on the list moderator to approve it, you'd better try again with a smaller photo. I have moderator notification turned off...otherwise I'd spend all day nursing people through the process.

Thanks, Mark

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