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> Speaking of pictures, one of the nice touches to the british-cars list
> is it's picture archives. List members can upload pictures of their own
> cars or just stuff of interest. There are several dozen GIF and JPEG
> format pix of everything form classic pre war cars to latest Jags.
> Perhaps this has come up before. I have to admit, I don't read every
> single fordnatics posting so my apologies if it has. But I think there
> would be interest in seeing some of the cars being discussed. If Chuck
> doesn't have the disk space, perhaps someone could volunteer to set up a
> server. One of the brit-car folks did that to allow members without ftp
> access to download archived technical files and pictures. No, I'm not
> volunteering; I don't have the resources but maybe someone out there
> does?

I'd be happy to provide a server. I've got a couple of hundred meg
sitting around that I could use. I'd even be willing to scan in photos
you guys send in. However, I'd have to limit access to members of the
Fordnatics list. My machine's pretty limited, and the sysadmins around
here would freak if I set up an anonymous FTP site.

- -- Robert King



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Mail From: (email redacted) (Robert King)

> >I'd be happy to provide a server. I've got a couple of hundred meg
> >sitting around that I could use. I'd even be willing to scan in photos
> >you guys send in. However, I'd have to limit access to members of the
> >Fordnatics list. My machine's pretty limited, and the sysadmins around
> >here would freak if I set up an anonymous FTP site.
>
> Robert,
>
> That would be great. I have some pictures I could send your way, and I'm
> very interested in downloading other people's too.

That would be fine. I'll notify the list when I'm ready. I've found a
site outside of work that I can use, I just need to set up the
directories and such.

> You might want to set up some guide lines about preferred formats, storage
> requirements, preferred times to access your site, sender supplied
> descriptions of pictures for an index, etc.
>
> I recommend that keep an updated ASCII index file for all of the pictures in
> the archive. Creating an index at the beginning, will help after you have a
> bunch of pictures. It will eliminate the need for people to download every
> picture. The index should list resolution, color depth, a good description.
> A good description would be car type, year, color, owner?, owner ID?, photo
> angle, location/setting, and a short but descriptive sentence. If it is
> just a "picture" of no one's particular car, list the owner as anonymous and
> the owner ID as the contributor. If it is not a car (engine etc.) put what
> it is into the "car type" field. etc.

I'll post somthing to the list soon concerning the format of submissions.
Basically if someone uploads an image, I'll ask them to profide a short
description of the image. The requested contents of that message I
haven't decided on yet. From there I'll fill out a table of contents
type document for each directory.

> Just my $0.02, but I hate FTPing to a site and trying to decipher the names
> of picture files, only to download the pic and see something I would have
> never wanted in the first place.

I feel the same way. This brings back fond (and not so fond) memories of
when I used to run a graphics BBS.

- -- Robert


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>
> Cool! Shall I read on? maybe there are a dozen replies to this-
> and the FTP address? I'm about 100 letters behind!
> -Bob
>

I haven't published the FTP address yet, because there's nothing there
yet. I've gotten several submissions for the archive, so once I get
those into the archive, I'll put it on the list. This shouldn't take
too long.

- -- Robert King


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