Steve Turner wrote in
t:

Kevin Miller wrote:
davenport wrote:

Can you shrink the size of the photos and post w/o doing a
multipart message - my reader doesn't do them. They're
about 10 times as large (in bytes) as they probably need
to be. It's really easy to do with a free utility called
irfanview (among others) which is easily downloaded from
the internet.

Thanks...

...Kevin

I usually just bring them into MS-Paint, do a
Image-Stretch/Skew, reduce the horizontal and vertical
values to something less than 100% (say, 50%), then save
the file. Heck, just saving the file without resizing it
usually shaves off a bunch of bloat (depending on how it
was originally created), and that itself might be enough to
avoid having to split the file into pieces.

The utilities you mentioned are probably easier, but I'm
too lazy to hunt them down and try them out, and invariably
the one that does what *I* want is the one most likely to
cost money or have a time-out trial period. I'm also too
lazy to paste multi-part messages together (and yes, I wish
my newsreader supported it, but NO I'm not going to switch
to a "real" newsreader that does, thank you). I'm quite
content to just ignore multi-part posts...


There's a "powertoy" that Microsoft released years ago for XP
that installs a a right-click option to "Resize Pictures". If
you can't find it let me know and we'll figure out a way to
get it for you.

Larry