Re: sending large picture files on aol

[rafeb <rafeb@channel1.com>]

At 08:05 PM 7/22/01 -0400, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

>>  Files larger then about 3mb leaving the AOL system will be filtered out.
>>  Many mail servers filter out files starting at 2MB.
>>
>>  The safest thing to do is compress the file using Stuff-It
>>  and send the .sit file.
>
>At 7:47 AM -0400 2001/07/22, rafeb responded:
>>There's no point compressing JPG files, and
>>usually little gain to be had from using
>>.SIT or .ZIP compression on 2D image files.
>
>Compression is not the issue here. Getting through AOL's system is. 
>ZIPped files are subject to fewer constraints than JPEGs.
>-- 
>'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]
>
>

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