Bob.dial{at}gte.net said to Photo at 09-06-03  07:45
 Subject: Re: ALL/Northeast Blackou

 Bo> ----- Original Message -----
 Bo> From: "Wayne Young" 
 Bo> To: 
 Bo> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 7:33 PM
 Bo> Subject: Re: ALL/Northeast Blackout


 Bo> HI, Wayne!
 
 >
 > I thought I saw photos posted on this Echo by Karen and Larry...

 In the old days, when you wanted to send a binary file you would UUE
 it, then send it over Fido.  That was common in the programming echoes.
 Most of the other echoes don't allow binary file messages.  Works out
 this way, if you encoded 5 meg of binary, you would end up with it
 requiring about ten messages to transfer it in.  Fido messages
 shouldn't exceed 120 lines.  If one wanted to include a picture of say
 1.2 meg from their digital camera, some BBS operator in far off Tibet
 would be downloading that for a very long time, and none of his users
 could spend the two days time required to get it over their 300 baud
 modems.  All the world isn't the states and Canada, where we are
 spoiled with the best of everything, and become kinda inconsiderate of
 others, which is why we are hated in the rest of the world.  Even when
 it was recieved, unless they had a UUD (D=Decoder) available (or Outlook
 Express,) they couldn't even recreate the original from all that huge
 data file.


 Bo> Not supposed to be.  Fidonet is text only.  
 
 >Is there a new ruling on this echo?

 It is up to the moderator, and the moderator has spoken.

 Bo> Nope.  Quite the opposite.  Has been text about since inception, when
 Bo> no one had any digital pix to upload.
 
 > Rather interesting no photos on a photo echo, isn't it?

 Not allowed to email potato chips in the cooking echo either..
 Reason being they won't fit through the electricity pipes.

 Some BBS's let attachments slide through, but they shouldn't.
 If your reading the echo in a dos reader, you will see a long list of
 strange stuff at the bottom of the message.  Windows will take your
 attachments and UUE (Unix Unix Encode) them to send over the Fido
 Unix network 7 bit formats.
 
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