[thelist] .ART and AOL (ooops they did it again)
sulasmin suruji
sazmin_alyin at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 20 02:48:04 CDT 2001
--- deke <web at master.gen.in.us> wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2001, at 11:07, Joshua Olson posted a
> message which said:
>
> > Recently, I got a .ART image attached to an email.
> The sender insists that
> > the file was originally a .jpg. I did some
> looking and it seems like AOL
> > converts images as it sends them. As clients
> often send me images to use as
> > design elements on a page, this automatic
> conversion is problematic. Is
> > there any way to force AOL to leave the images the
> h**l alone or convert
> > them back to something I can use once I get the
> images?
>
> I don't believe you can get AOL to leave the images
> alone.
>
> And since Johnson-Grace compression is
> AOL-proprietary, there is
> no conversion software available. Best way to
> convert them seems
> to be doing a screen capture.
>
> Why don't you set up a file upload script on a
> website? Users seem
> to have a *terrible* time when it comes to emailing
> photos, and FTP
> really confuses them, but if you have them do a
> browser upload, it
> works 95% of the time. (Once in a while, people try
> to upload shortcut
> (.lnk) files.... - but then, they try to *mail*
> those, too! <grin>)
>
> deke
>
>
>
>
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