Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-13 Thread cbannister
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:52:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 11 May 2016 at 06:36:43 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:57:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 01 May 2016 11:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > > > > > "Do not submit an

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 May 2016 at 06:36:43 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:57:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 01 May 2016 11:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > > > "Do not submit an attachment larger than 10 KiB. Consider using > > >

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-10 Thread cbannister
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:57:34AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2016 11:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > > "Do not submit an attachment larger than 10 KiB. Consider using > > paste.debian.net and including a link in your post." > > > > From 

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-10 Thread cbannister
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:41:10PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > > You know, I thought I had tried switching themes with out success. I just > tried it again and the Oxygen theme cleared up the problem. So this is the solution to a problem in another thread? :/ -- The media's the most powerful

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 04:38:53PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > You know, I just looked at http://paste.debian,net. The site seems to be > more for pasting code snippets than anything else. While there is nothing > wrong with this, I don't see why they don't just paste the code directly > into

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/03/2016 06:57 AM, heqami...@runbox.com wrote: On 05/03/2016 05:18 AM, Gary Roach wrote: I still haven't found a solution for the disappearance of all of my desktop icons. They are replaced with little transparent squares. They still work though. Try to change the theme you are using

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 07:08:07PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Ralph Sanchez writes: > > I guess a lot of those 2.1 million customers probably live in very > > rural areas where maybe other forms aren't available, or the cost to > > lay wire would be more then they have. My thinking is, we have

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread heqami...@runbox.com
On 05/03/2016 05:18 AM, Gary Roach wrote: > I still haven't found a solution for the disappearance of all of my > desktop icons. They are replaced with little transparent squares. They > still work though. Try to change the theme you are using and/or install some new themes. and/or install a

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Brian
On Tue 03 May 2016 at 07:51:29 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2016-05-03 12:08 (UTC+0100): > > >On Mon 02 May 2016 at 23:43:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > >>thousands of mailing list subscribers. This list's subscribers can see in > >>the list posting rules that binary

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Felix Miata
Brian composed on 2016-05-03 12:08 (UTC+0100): On Mon 02 May 2016 at 23:43:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: thousands of mailing list subscribers. This list's subscribers can see in the list posting rules that binary attachments are not to be expected unless of nominal size, thus can feel safe

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Brian
On Mon 02 May 2016 at 23:43:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Gary Roach composed on 2016-05-02 16:38 (UTC-0700): > > >... Someone needs to figure out a way to handle this without > >penalizing the rest of us. > > Penalizing is the emailing of unsolicited binary attachments to hundreds or

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 04:18:59 Gary Roach wrote: > I still haven't found a solution for the disappearance of all of my > desktop icons. They are replaced with little transparent squares. They > still work though. This problem got lost. I should start a new thread and explain it clearly,

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-05-01 11:57 (UTC-0400): So I'd like to prose a compromise that recognizes the folks still on dialup and at dialup speeds. Possibly paying by the minute for access. Some pay by the byte even with high bandwidth. Not attaching binaries is about not being wasteful

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Felix Miata
Gary Roach composed on 2016-05-02 16:38 (UTC-0700): ... Someone needs to figure out a way to handle this without penalizing the rest of us. Penalizing is the emailing of unsolicited binary attachments to hundreds or thousands of mailing list subscribers. This list's subscribers can see in

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/02/2016 05:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 03 May 2016 00:38:53 Gary Roach wrote: Someone needs to figure out a way to handle this without penalizing the rest of us. "The rest of us" don't have any desire to send pictures and are not being penalised. Lisi I wouldn't send pictures

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread John Hasler
Ralph Sanchez writes: > I guess a lot of those 2.1 million customers probably live in very > rural areas where maybe other forms aren't available, or the cost to > lay wire would be more then they have. My thinking is, we have GPS > that works nearly (ok maybe not) everywhere you'd go and want >

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 00:38:53 Gary Roach wrote: > Someone needs to figure out a way to handle this without > penalizing the rest of us. "The rest of us" don't have any desire to send pictures and are not being penalised. Lisi

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Ralph Sanchez
On the subject of Dialup, and this is me speaking for just me, but I'd rather have to walk five blocks everytime I need internet then spend 20 a month on dial up :/ I guess a lot of those 2.1 million customers probably live in very rural areas where maybe other forms aren't available, or the cost

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/02/2016 07:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 02 May 2016 06:18:02 Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2016-04-30 23:20:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 30 April 2016 21:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send anything other than

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 May 2016 15:01:12 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2016 06:18:02 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2016-04-30 23:20:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 30 April 2016 21:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > > > > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or > > >

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 May 2016 06:18:02 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-04-30 23:20:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 30 April 2016 21:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > > > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or > > > send anything other than plain text files. This leaves me

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Brian
On Mon 02 May 2016 at 08:44:53 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 09:59:13AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > [...] > > > That coupled with the fact that this list just throws rejects into > > the bit bucket [...] > > I doubt that part. Especially having already received

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-04-30 23:20:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 30 April 2016 21:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > > > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > > anything other than plain text files. This leaves me with a problem if > > I wish to post a screen shot. I have

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/01/2016 11:44 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 09:59:13AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: [...] That coupled with the fact that this list just throws rejects into the bit bucket [...] I doubt that part. Especially having

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 09:59:13AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: [...] > That coupled with the fact that this list just throws rejects into > the bit bucket [...] I doubt that part. Especially having already received rejects from some Debian list due to

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/01/2016 10:38 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 01 May 2016 17:59:13 Gary Roach wrote: Dial up or no dial up I really think Debian needs to loosen up a bit on the site restrictions. Why? Most people manage fine. If you would only answer the questions you are asked, you would get more

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/05/16 03:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > So I'd like to prose a compromise that recognizes the folks still > on dialup and at dialup speeds. Possibly paying by the minute for > access. > > Accept the attachment, but strip it from the message that goes > back out to the list and store it on

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 09:59 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I need to re-read Gene Haskett's suggestion again and try to > impliment  > it. Dial up or no dial up I really think Debian needs to loosen up a > bit  > on the site restrictions. You could probably file a bug about reject notices. As for

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Siard
On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:12:00 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > anything other than plain text files. This leaves me with a problem > if I wish to post a screen shot. I have been told that debian has a > paste bin. Does anyone know

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 01 May 2016 17:59:13 Gary Roach wrote: > Dial up or no dial up I really think Debian needs to loosen up a bit > on the site restrictions. Why? Most people manage fine. If you would only answer the questions you are asked, you would get more help faster. Lisi

Re: Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/01/2016 04:46 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 01 May 2016 12:33:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send anything other than plain text files. I just sent a screenshot half an hour ago and

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 May 2016 11:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 10:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago.  It has not so far > > > > turned > > > > > up. But another email I sent 5 minutes ago has turned up.  Whilst > > > Debian Users list

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 01 May 2016 16:07:39 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 10:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago.  It has not so far > > > > turned > > > > > up. But another email I sent 5 minutes ago has turned up.  Whilst > > > Debian Users list

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 10:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago.  It has not so far > turned > > up. But another email I sent 5 minutes ago has turned up.  Whilst > > Debian Users list certainly accepts attachments, it does look as > > though it doesn't like

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 May 2016 07:28:40 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or > > send anything other than plain text files. > > I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago. It has not so far turned > up.

Sorry. :-( Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 01 May 2016 12:33:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > > anything other than plain text files. > > I just sent a screenshot half an hour ago and it has not arrived, but >

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > anything other than plain text files. I just sent a screenshot half an hour ago and it has not arrived, but another email I sent twenty minutes later has arrived. Although

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 01 May 2016 02:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > anything other than plain text files. I tried sending a screenshot 25 minutes ago. It has not so far turned up. But another email I sent 5 minutes ago has turned up.

Re: Posting picture files

2016-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 30 April 2016 21:12:00 Gary Roach wrote: > I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send > anything other than plain text files. This leaves me with a problem if > I wish to post a screen shot. I have been told that debian has a paste > bin. Does anyone know

Posting picture files

2016-04-30 Thread Gary Roach
I understand that I should not use attachments on debian-user or send anything other than plain text files. This leaves me with a problem if I wish to post a screen shot. I have been told that debian has a paste bin. Does anyone know the url for that bin. Gary R