"Lucy" <lucy@gmail.com>wrote:
.. small bananas as a "one off", Lucy.. "shit happens" as they say <g>
In your setup for Ozum something else you could take a peek at is the
"size of the split" setting.
You know about this information , from the Ozum tutorial 0n-line?
Most large (e.g. media and software) files
are split when posted to the Usenet. First,
they are packed and/or split into volumes,
then they are split again into parts that are
attached to articles by the posting software.
You may have been in a situation when you've
spent quite some time and bandwidth on
downloading a huge file (e.g. a DVD movie),
but could not use it because one or more
articles turned out to be missing or
corrupted. This is not uncommon. The larger
the file is the greater are the chances that
something went wrong on it's long way from the
poster's hard drive to yours.
The tutorial is talking 'to' downloaders in explanation. The work
however,in splitting, starts at the posters end. Your current setting
for splitting your RaR file is around 15,000 lines in UUencode.
For all servers to share these files you need to get closer to
~7-8,000 lines for UUencode articles. I use and recommend ~6-8,000
lines.. just to be on the conservative side of it all working.
I have been playing with Ozum for a while now as it appears to be a
solution to some other problems seen here in ABCP buuuut I am still
'testing' so I don't have an install currently mounted.
Therefore...
If you don't know how to adjust the size of the split, or can't find
out in the manual (quickly).. jes holler.
cheers
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