Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / March 2006

alt.test would be a good place to "practice"

Below, where?

Wan, it is bad form to post images to a newsgroup unless it is one for
that purpose.  There are many binary newsgroups that can be used for
posting images.  There is even one for model planes (I believe).  Find
that group, post your image there, then write here to tell us what the
link is to your pictures.

That is how it is generally done.

Keep the images in jpg format and less than 60K in size so they will
download faster on machines with dial-up connections.

You can see how I solved this image problem by going to
http://www.photos.windmillpro.com/

This is my personal image site and you can see images of my models
over the years and a few other things.

Good luck... Ken

So?  One person thought it was OK several years ago, and since he was
there years before that, that makes it OK?  Ultimately, Usenet today
is what we make of it today, not what one of the `pioneers' thinks it
should be.

I'll bet we could find some pioneers who don't think it's OK to post
test messages to non-test groups too.

I'd also bet that overall, the `pioneers' are both amazed and aghast
at what Usenet has become.

That is true.  But even so, it's still annoying at best when people
put test messages into newsgroups that are actually being used.

If your post isn't at least somewhat on-topic, don't make it -- it's
really just that simple.  If you want to make a test post to
rec.models.rc.air, cleverly disguise it as an on-topic post, by making
it a real on-topic post!  How hard could that be?

Lest I be a hypocrite, I got bored one day (it was raining, or I was
working, or I had to watch the kids or something -- ultimately, I
couldn't fly) and I had just answered another email about where the
local slopes were, so I went and found the Google maps information for
all the places I go fly in Austin, TX --

  http://mclaren.frenzy.com/~dougmc/RC/austin-slopes.html

nothing really special, but one thing that amused me is that if you
look at the HCAM field and zoom way in, there's a few cars visible,
and there's a speck in the pits that I suspect is somebody's plane.

How often can you claim that your model was visible from orbit? :)

(of course, this is assuming that this particular image came from a
satellite, and not from a plane flying over.  It's also a bit tricky
to determine just who's plane it is, since it is just a speck.)

I'll bet if we went poking around in some of the big sailplane club
fields (with their big models), we could find some clearly visible
models in google maps.  Or maybe an IMAA field ...

Full scale planes are quite obvious, of course -- and it's great fun
to go looking at places like Area-51 and look at the planes that
google actually lets you look at.  There's even places where you can
see planes in flight, which is kind of neat.

FWIW, I've added this quotation to the Usenet page on <http://www.big-8.org>.

                    Marty