3051) How do I post a picture to the newsgroups?
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This article is from the Hong Kong FAQ, by John Ho john@jho.com with numerous contributions by others.
3051) How do I post a picture to the newsgroups?
Of course you are free to post any pictures you want. However, if you
want to contribute your posted pictures for a particular subdivided
archive of HKPA, you must notify the person-in-charge of that archive,
the availability of your pictures. Please read the topic specific for
the subdivided archive you are concerning with, for the address of
the appropriate person-in-charge you have to contact, as well as the
contribution rules of the archive concerns.
** The person-in-charge of some subdivided archive doesn't recommend
this way of submitting pictures. Please check that.
Your contributions must be posted to the following newsgroups:
alt.binaries.pictures.misc
-PROCEDURE OF POSTING A GIF TO PICTURES NEWSGROUPS:
- uuencode the GIF file first.
- split the uuencoded file into parts less than 1000 lines.
This can be done using the Unix "split" program.
- add the lines:
"BEGIN--------------------Cut Here--------------------"
at the beginning and the line
"END----------------------Cut Here--------------------"
at the end of each split file.
- post each part to "alt.binaries.pictures.misc". This can be
done by typing in "alt.binaries.pictures.misc" when asked
for the name of the newsgroup to post to.
- when posting, be sure to include "(chinese: HKPA.***)" in the
Subject: line to identify this posting as a part of our HKPA GIFs
- and include the filename and part number of current part being
posted. ( eg. Subject: file.gif (chinese: HKPA.***) [part 1/3] )
- post a part number 0 first (eg. [part 0/3]) which has a short
description of the content of the picture, for example:
filename : chow-wm02.gif
description: Full portrait of Vivian Chow (Chow Wai Man),
a Hong Kong pop singer
category : female Hong Kong popstar
image : 583x1052x256
filesize : 309424 bytes
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