On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:24:45 GMT, Maple1 wrote:



PLEASE READ THE GUIDE Point # 8 voted on by the group a couple of years
ago..




The objective of this Guide is provide posting and behavioral
guidelines within the
ALT.BINARIES.PICTURES.AVIATION newsgroup (ABPA). It is NOT LAW.
Because this NG is self-moderated,users who ignore this Guide can
expect comments from other users. Serial defaulters may attract stronger
comments and/or be "kill filtered" or "Plonked" by regular users.
Therefore, if you wish your aviation pictures to be appreciated by
visitors, and regulars in this newsgroup, it is to your advantage to
follow these guidelines.


Strong comments don't bother me. Neither do "votes" by an amorphous
and constantly changing body that were taken "a couple of years ago",
which is a long time in modern technology. I actively encourage
people who don't like my chosen method of encoding to "kill filter" or
"plonk" my posts. The fact that anybody actually thinks that is a
sanction shows what a weird world the Internet is.

I looked back over the last 3 or 4 months of posts, and found that
most batch posts had files bigger and often 2-3 times as big as my
typical file, yet mine are almost all 1280 X 1024 images and the
quality is quite good. Among the batches I checked were photos marked
Fairford, Aalborg, Aviation Appreciation BBQ, Fantasy of Flight,
Jaguars Retire, Shawsbury, Pt. Magu (sic). I am not even remotely
critical of those posts--I'm just pointing out that yEnc doesn't make
files nearly as big as UU. RustY posted two samples to this group
back in April comparing the two encoding methods on the same file, and
he was surprised by just how big the size difference was.

However, I'd be lying if I said I used yEnc for size reasons. I use
it because it is convenient--when PowerPost went from UU to yEnc, I
didn't have to learn anything new, so I was (and am) fine with it..
Complainers seem to want me to do something inconvenient for me so as
not to impact their convenience. Not going to happen.

Now, as far as I can tell, the central argument below does not hold. I
have been posting yEnc files without even thinking about it in many
groups ever since PowerPost went yEnc. NOT ONCE have a read a
complaint from someone with a yEnc-enabled reader that they couldn't
decode my particular yEnc files. So whatever version PowerPost uses
apparently does not cause problems.

TO those who enjoy my files, there will be more to come until I'm done
for the year (I only do Oshkosh). To those who can't or don't or
won't, trust me, your life will be just as good or bad as it was with
or without my files, and no damage has been done to you exept in your
own mind (but who knows--given the increasingly litigious nature of
this society, I'm sure some actually think they've been hurt in some
fashion).




8.
YENC - is NOT Acceptable.
Yenc encoding is not yet standardized, so there are different
versions in use and many news readers do not recognize any
of them. The same applies to any other non-standard posting
formats. To avoid upset, please use only the standard
UU-Encoding when posting your pictures. Besides, if you are
looking for discussion, or conversation regarding an image,
you are far more likely obtain it with a standard format
posting, rather than a non-standard one. To
be fair about it, if Yenc or some other method does become a
recognized standard then this will quickly be amended.