18-01-2011, 11:46 AM
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Signs of Spring: Snowdrops
In article , Wolf K
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On 17/01/2011 4:27 PM, Mad Cow wrote:
In , MadCow
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So much for Forte Agent. Perhaps it doesn't really work with Windows 7.
Quite possible, if you are using the free version, it hasn't been
updated for a long time. OTOH, if you inserted the image instead of
attaching it, that may be the problem.
Yes, I thought inserting the file might prevent it sending the file and
the text in two separate posts! Sounds as if it doesn't really work
with binary newsgroups.
The free version no longer exists; this is the current version on 30
days' trial. It doesn't seem to fetch news in the background, you have
to wait for each post separately, which is daft in the broadband era.
I'd use it just to post pictures if it was trouble-free, but it doesn't
seem to be.
Try Thunderbird, it's also a good e-mail client.
Tried it, hated it, uninstalled it. It downloads all your spam before
not letting you write your own rules, so no use for fetching mail or
news. I could try whether I can use it for posting pictures only, since
I wouldn't be trying to read anything with it.
Anyway, my first spring bulbs:
[ Section: 1/1 File: zSnowdrop03.jpg UUencoded by: Turnpike Integrated
Version 5.02 S ]
begin 644 zSnowdrop03.jpg
You can see that the image file was included as a text file. I Saved
your post complete to the desktop, renamed it to snowdrop.jpg, and then
it opened OK in my image viewer. Nice pic.
It was included as a binary file, UUencoded. I'm sorry your newsreader
can't decode them automatically, as it's a hassle to save files -
especially if you then find you don't like the picture!
I seldom had these problems until I got 64-bit Windows and realised too
late that my existing newsreader wouldn't run on it. This more
primitive version does everything I need except that in Usenet posts it
won't allow MIME encoding of attachments, only UUencoding.
I doubt there are many more newsreaders out there.
give MesNews a try, its free
http://www.mesnews.net/gb/
--
mick
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