I agree with you, it was Kinch who was being a grinch.

DoN. Nichols wrote:
In article t,
RoyJ wrote:

Richard J Kinch wrote:


GTO69RA4 writes:



Not clear why there is this "dropbox" thing at all, like it was a BBS
in 1980. Some reason these files on the Web can't be Web pages?

If folks don't want to or can't host their own photos and/or write
pages for them, there's the Dropbox.


Obviously. The question is, why the clumsy FTP-style interface, why are
they not arranged into single HTML pages by topic. You have to click at
least 2N times to look at N photos for just 1 topic. XYZ.txt and XYZ_1.jpg
thru XYZ_N.jpg should all be viewable in one XYZ.html.

Because you have a volenteer that offered to keep the list up to date,
he chose to do it that way, hasn't bothered to update things for the
last 5 years.
http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox.html


Actually -- it is updated regularly. Steve donates the file
space and the server, and regularly (about twice a year) moves older
files into separate archives by year, to keep the current directory from
getting too large for practical browsing.

As for the arrangement -- it is an automated process, with the
files extracted from the e-mails submitting them without any hands-on
work.

It is up to those who donate the files to name them in such a
way that they group together in an alphabetical sort. You saw one of
the problems -- if you start with image numbers, things get spread out
rather strangely. Standard practice is to have all of the related files
start with the same string, and the numbers as the last things before
the file type extension.

Steve has other things to do, which bring him income. This does
not. As it is, he spends far too much time checking for virii in
recent uploads -- and weeding out spam.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Instead, be thankful that
Steve does make this available.

If you want a neater organization, offer your own web space and
method of submission. This one works well for most here. And you can't
beat the price. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.