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I believe it is in the NEWSGROUPS where I "bust chops" about attachments. The charters for all the regular newsgroups are "No Binaries" (this is too keep the volume down to a 'manageable' amount of data for the servers - they store 10,000+ newsgroups and really don't want to have their volume exponentially increase with binaries), they can only be posted in the "alt.binaries.xxx" and can happily compete with the porn pictures there...<br><br>
Good point here though, I have no problem with the mail list binaries unless others don't want them. How do the others feel?<br><br>
We could make a rule that attachments are under 100K or perhaps 500K...comments? Or I can follow the newsgroup rules and post a link to the picture. currently I feel that any attachment relating to the topic of Test Equipment is OK, providing it is not huge (500k+) those can be emailed to me for posting to the hosting site ftp.flippers.com/Fluke<br><br>
I am going to edit that site to support additional PDFs of other test equipment, I just received a partial PDF of the Arium ML4100 Operating Manual for example. That is going up on the PDFs subsection until I sort these out a bit more and create a web page for the mess.<br><br>
John :-#)#<br><br>
At 01:43 AM 23/04/2002 -0500, Mark Shostak wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hey! Aren't you the one who's always busting our chops about not sending<br>
attachments?!<br><br>
I don't really care, but you whined about my attaching that 2k text file,<br>
so...<br><br>
>From the looks of the picture, I'd say some duct tape should fix you right<br>
up.<br>
Especially those custom widened edge connectors!<br><br>
-Mark<br><br>
<br>
> I don't know what you folks experience is in shipping stuff, but I just<br>
> bought one of the Ariums on eBay and when it arrived it was a bit broken<br>
up<br>
> inside - see small picture - so I sent the following note to the seller of<br>
> the next Arium I won:<br>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> "Might I ask you to pack this securely? I just received another Arium that<br>
ey!<br>
> I had won in a previous auction and the two circuit boards inside the unit<br>
> had broken their pc card edge connectors due to shock in transit. Plus the<br>
> handle snapped one of it's lock buttons and the rear of the unit was bent<br>
a<br>
> bit. This WAS packed in a big box with lots of chunks of foam...<br>
><br>
> If possible I would ask you if you could please remove the two (or three?)<br>
> small PC style circuit boards that are in the center of the unit and pack<br>
> them with the pods. Then could you pack the Arium in it's own box, filled<br>
> with peanuts, then place that box in a larger one, then the pods (and<br>
> possibly the two/three boards) would be packed in a second smaller box and<br>
> placed with the boxed Arium in the single bigger box that is also then<br>
> filled with "peanuts"? I hope that is not inconvenient for you. But I<br>
> really would like this to arrive in working condition. And it is somewhat<br>
> fragile as I have found out to my dismay. I won't hold you responsible at<br>
> all for shipping damage, we all take our chances, as long as it is well<br>
> packed - that is reasonable, isn't it?<br>
><br>
> We have shipped many items using this method including Pachinkos ( lots of<br>
> plastic bits to break off) and old pinball backglasses and none have<br>
broken<br>
> in transit."<br>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
><br>
> Comments? Any one else have nasty surprises when they opened a box? I've<br>
> had the points snapped off of probes, pins mangled on pods etc, so I am<br>
> careful to describe recommended method of packing to sellers of equipment.<br>
> for example - the Fluke Pods, it is IMPERITIVE that the plugs are taped<br>
> after locked into the self test socket on the pod. Shipping tape works<br>
very<br>
> well.<br>
><br>
> John :-#)#</blockquote></html>
Received on Tue Apr 23 07:46:27 2002
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