Clueless Camera Users

[mairving]

I seem to have this problem with Clueless Camera Users who go out take pictures with their new digital camera and decide to send them out in an email to all of the buds. One that occured yesterday was that I had a guy send out about 8 pictures to about 12 of his friends. Each picture was about 2Mb each so that each email that was sent was about 16Mb. He followed this up with another email a few minutes later that was 27Mb total. Bad enough but since I administrator the mail server, it put quite a drag on it. Plus to top it off most of them were returned which puts further drag on the server. Well now his max size is capped at 2Mb.

To make it even worse, someone else decided they were going to send one of the people here some pictures from a recent conference. They were rejected by my server since the size was 156Mb. Can you imagine trying to get that one on dialup.

[raftero]

one of my kids got a digital and was thrilled to send pictures, only thing she didn't know how to reduce the size and you got just pieces of the picture without scrolling. i instructed her on the fine art of reducing the size, it took forever to get them on dialup.

[icallmedan]

I feel your pain!

Also, I like your sig, although those links pay the bills around here!

[TwoRails]

Sending soo many at one time is a little bit much, but with todays cameras, a 2MB cap is a little low. I always reduce "pics" to about 50 - 250KB, but I do share some "photos" with people at full res, which is typically a little over 2MB, but only one or two at a time. Naturally, I don't send full res photos to friends with dialup.

[ric449]

Ouch, I would hate to be stuck with dial up recieving one of those .

I pretty much mastered optimising and shrinking pics when I setup my website, I need to save as much bandwidth as possible since its hosted on my comp, and I have a 15GB a month limit. If BT see I'm using up lots of bandwidth they will charge me £1 for every extra gigabyte I use. Talk about a rip off.

[glc]

Just be happy that BT even allows you to host a website at all on a residential plan.

[ric449]

Thats just it, I'm sure I remember reading that it is against the tems of use to run a website with their residential service. If I get caught I am in very hot water.