Housekeeping

[Jim Flanagan]

No: HPFGUIDX 992

Here are a few more thoughts on housekeeping:

Be aware of storage requirements when you post files.  E-groups gives 
us 20Mb for storage.  We have used 40% of our quota in less than a 
month.  One of the files (a chat transcript) takes up 4.5Mb by 
itself. 

Avoid double posting long items -- post as a message or in the Files 
area, but not both.

Use a well-compressed JPEG or GIF format for photos and keep the size 
down so that they take up no more than half a 640x480 screen. At an 
average of 20Kb each, we could store a thousand such pictures without 
exceeding our disk quota; however, a single bitmapped graphic "hot 
off the scanner" can easily exceed 1Mb by itself.

Consider linking to other sites for photos and other large files 
rather than including them in the Club Files area. 

-Jim Flanagan
(President, Argus Filch fan club)

"Filth! Mess and muck everywhere! ...Dung, great sizzling dragon 
bogies... frog brains... rat intestines... I've had enough of it..."