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what size are uncompressed game turns? - 5/19/2005 2:41:23 AM

wobbly

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I have a problem where my ISP uses an anti-virus product that is uncompressing the game turn and it can't fully uncompress it. Therefore my mail is not arriving!

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RE: what size are uncompressed game turns? - 5/19/2005 3:35:31 AM

Mr.Frag

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Can get up to about 2 megs. Need a gmail account? No silly limits, flip an email to witp.help@gmail.com

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RE: what size are uncompressed game turns? - 5/19/2005 4:50:47 AM

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You can also zip the files and add a pasword. This stops the offending program from decompressing the file.

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RE: what size are uncompressed game turns? - 5/19/2005 7:43:49 AM

wobbly

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Hmm - very funny. My ISP is complaining that it is expading out to 17+ MB and overcoming their levels. Obviously something else is afoot (or an arse more like).

I have obtained a Yahoo account but it just ain't the same.

I'll try password protecting a zip file but it might just stop it all together - they don't actually inform you of a non-delivered file - I suppose for spam reasons.

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RE: what size are uncompressed game turns? - 5/19/2005 9:36:15 AM

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Zip up the .wps file.

Then when the ISP looks at the file and if they scan zip files, they will unzip it and do their virus scan check on the original .wps file.

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RE: what size are uncompressed game turns? - 5/19/2005 3:45:33 PM

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Is "Brightmail" the program they are using? That is the program my ISP is using that does the exact same thing. It passes a password protected zip, but attaches the original mail in a warning message stating that it could not check the file. You may want to warn the recipient as these warnings can freak people out.

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RE: what size are uncompressed game turns? - 5/19/2005 3:53:20 PM

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The problem with Bright mail is that it sees the .wps file as a compressed file of some kind and decompresses it. After it does this the file is huge, 15-20MBs. This is beyond the limits they have set for files and it then strips the file from the email.

If the file is zipped it decompresses that, then decompresses the .wps and you are in the same boat. A password prevents Brightmial from decopressing the zip and so it does not get stripped. A password on the zip should defeat any mail checker trying to decompress the file.

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