Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Your attached image makes your message approximately 658kb though,
> because it's absolutely enormous (2487x2759 pixels). Even stored as a
> png, which can take advantage of the white space through run-length
> encoding, it still takes 450kb.
>
> Making the picture smaller results in an image which is still perfectly
> legible and, look!
>
> $ convert img001.jpg -geometry 500x500 smaller.png; ls -lh smaller.png
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rupert rupert 36K Jun 4 16:14 smaller.png
Alternatively, use a pastebin
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin). There is pastebin for pasting
code, and analogous sites for images. Here is one example
http://picpaste.com/eb02c6d2115a7a2281d9367f7d19e278.jpg
(it is an image of the picpaste.com front page).
A url at least gives the reader an option not to download the image.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by:
>
>> By the way, why did you decide to use to communicate such a strange
>> way of a mailing list? Why is not the forum? It would be much easier.
Well, web forums are like crippled newsgroups, and twitter is like
crippled irc, and ... all this confirms RJF's observation on a different
thread about regression ;-).
>
> I can't see any way that using some painful web forum would
> fundamentally make any difference to the problem of making sure that
> spam only irritates one person (a moderator) rather than everyone
> looking at the list.
>
> Also, it probably wouldn't work as well with gnus, gmane and leafnode.
And, of course, you can read Maxima's newsgroup through a web browser on
gmane if you really do insist on having a web forum 'feel'.
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general
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Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net>
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