gifs on diy

[Rene Schmitz]

At 12:20 07.01.99 -0800, you wrote:
>I think this situation may have a little to do with the fact that pictures
>tend to resurface over and over because of newcomers who seek the same info
>that earlier memebers posted or requested ... since a lot of the
>information is archived at individual sites maybe what we need is some kind
>of links index, though I am not averse to receiving small GIF files (<50k)
>once in a while ...

Yes it should not be common to receive 20 gifs of 50k size.
There is something to say about images:
If we would restrict ourselves to images with only 16 colors and only in 
gif format we could spice up the otherwise excellent discussions with
smaller images, without wasting too much bandwidth.
My personal idea is that the sender must try to conserve bandwidth as much
as possible. A file greater than 50k is better suited to be put on a
web-server.
And don't forget the possibility that another one might put it up somewhere, 
if the sender doesn't do a webpage.

>Here's a proposition: we can try to get everyone on the synth-DIY and
>Analog lists to post their own and others' links to schematics archives and
>then we can collate the info into a "pseudo-standard" link pages that can
>be mirrored at anyone's page ... the info on this GIF-links page need only
>specify basic info of image files stored at the link pointed to ...

Basically this is the Idea of Martin Czechs "Unofficial DIY Archive"
All posts are archived in certain intervals, and there is a list of URLs of
listmembers as well. Martin did check all the links if they are working!!

my 0.02 EUR



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