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.