Will do.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:43 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: lightering
> good deal
> sounds like another unadvertised bonus of our new service
>
> would you like to try it out on us before we go so far as to really
> jettison anything
>
> & with a little room in the photos section we might even forget
> about thinning out the files
>
> at least until it seems important enough to sacrifice anything
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Here's how to greatly lighten the load in the Photos section
> without losing
> > anything:
> >
> > When a member uploads a photo, Yahoo Groups saves three
> versions of it:
> > thumbnail (for the index page); screen-size (the one that
> members can view); and
> > full-size (the one the member uploaded). If the file uploaded is
> already small
> > (in the screen-size range), then only two are saved. Many of
> the full-size
> > files (as uploaded) are huge, running into hundreds and
> thousands of KB. These
> > are essentially useless, because only moderators can view
> them. However,
> > moderators can also delete them, without deleting the
> thumbnail and screen-size
> > versions that all members can view.
> >
> > To delete the full-size version of any photo, a moderator will
> need to navigate
> > to the screen-size photo on-screen, then click on the photo to
> get the full-size
> > version. Only moderators can do this. Once at the full-size
> version, there
> > will be a link to delete the full-size version. Once this is done
> for each of
> > the photos in the Photos section and repeated periodically on
> new additions,
> > there should be worlds of capacity to last a very long time.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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