from Sam Heywood:

>Of course the error messages would have to be from bad base64 encoding.
>Whether the JPG is a good one or a bad one is a matter to be decided by
>one's subjective judgement, and not from any computer logic.  I also know
>about MPACK and MUMPACK, and how they work.  I too have used these programs.

What I meant by good or bad JPG was conforming to the specified format, whether
the JPG was valid, not a matter of picture quality.

My error:

> A web hosting service automatically converting JPG images to GIF is not a good
> idea in view of the copyright problems with JPG.

I slipped here, that sentence should have ended "copyright problems with GIF."
I guess I was tired.

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