On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:58:12 +0200, "Richard"
wrote:


"The Old Bloke" schreef in bericht
...
Hi,

J3 posts some amazing stuff, but I need some help to view it.

First of all, on my normal newsserver, about 32 out of every 35 files were
missing. So I went to a pay newsserver (Agent). And I changed to Agent's
newsreader.

I then chose to download 'Nasa Project Mercury Pics part01.rar" This was
composed of 35 postings which Agent combined and downloaded. That was
about 15meg. Now my understanding of .rar is that one needs all the parts
to view the pictures. Sure enough, when I tried to open it, it asked for
part 2. So I downloaded part 2. Another ~15meg. As far as I can see there
are 18 parts?

Is this correct? Then I see that there are Vol1, etc for the same series.
If there are 18 parts, do I have to download 18 X 15 = 270meg? Is this
how much I have to download to see the pictures? I asked this earlier and
was branded a winger. But I really need to know. I have a 12G download
limit per month, so I need to be aware of what is available versus what I
can use my download allowance on.

Is there someone that understands J3 postings who will attempt to answer
my questions?

I am comfortable with yEnc and .rar files.

Regards
Doug

J3's space shuttle posting amounted to almost 5 G of high quality pictures.
The pictures were really great, but it comes at a cost.
The flood itself washes out all other posts

Any decent news server has capacity for all groups, not per groups.

and for guys out there who don't
use a high speed internet connection it can be a real pain in the behind.

You can skip them.

Although J3 posts beautiful pictures I made the choice to block his posts,
even though I do have a high speed connection.
I just don't consider it well mannered to hog up all that space as he has
done, just because he says it's too much work to pick some great pictures
and post them to this otherwise great newsgroup.
And though I exactly know how to download, decode and view postings like
J3's, I have no intention to tell how to do it here in the newsgroup.
Why, you may ask. Well a very simple reason, some people might see it as
some kind of encouragement to do the same thing as J3.
Sorry Doug, that's just the way I think about postings like J3, and judging
to the amount of negative comments on this NG I'm not the only one.

I would have preferred seperate jpegs though, that way you can see if
they are any good before getting the next one.
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