>>Once again, for the clueless, read Mark Zenier's guide to the
>>sci.electronics.* hierarchy,
>> ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/seguide9706.txt
> Comments, anyone?
>
> Viewers Guide to the USENET sci.electronics newsgroups. [March 24, 2007]
>
> This FAQ is a tourist's guide to the various electronics newsgroups.
good stuff!
Q. Can I post graphics images to these groups.
>
> A. As a consideration towards small sites and users that use
> automatic downloading software, the text groups in the big-8 news
> hierarchies are generally off limits to binary content posts.
> This is enforced by filtering software at the news servers.
> Either your posting will get rejected when you try to do this,
> or it will get dropped when processed as incoming news at another
> news server. So a large part of your audience will most likely
> never see it.
>
> Binary content postings are allowed in the alt.binaries hierarchy.
> The newsgroup alt.binaries.schematics.electronic (Note the usual
> Usenet reverse polish naming convention) was set up to support
> postings of images deriving from discussions in the sci.electronics.*
> and other electronics newsgroups.
You appear to be misspelling Polish and misusing the term "reverse Polish" I believe ther term you want is "heirachial" or "bass-ackwards"
If your default news server does not carry the alt.binaries groups
> (due to the insane traffic volume), there are some free sites with
> read only acess (see the newsgroup alt.free.newsservers), and there
> are many commercial NSPs (news service providers) where (by changing
> the configuration on your news server or browers) you can read and
> post through them (with an account name and password). [Suggestions?]
one way is to serch on newzbot.com (but often it'll find an unsecured server that'll later lock you out)
Try, for line drawings, to use a compressed file format. Recommended
> are monochrome .pdf files or and indexed format like GIF or PNG, or
TIFF.
The smallest files seem to be the formats (mono .pdf, TIFF) that use
> the Group 4 CCITT fax compression algorithm, with .png and .gif being
> somewhat bigger. JPG, jpeg doesn't work well on line drawings.
JPG doesn't woprk as well on line drawings, it's still 1000 times better than posting bmp.
mention of ASCII schematics (which can be posted in any group) and how to read them is notably missing.
Q. What's left for sci.electronics.misc?
>
> A. Gossip, history, trivia, manufacturing, systems, standards,
> announcements ...
discussing the FAQ ? :) (added)
Charters and description lines.
>
[...]
> sci.electronics.design Electronic circuit design.
>
> "Discussions relevant to the design of electronics circuits."
possibly add the following: Posters here should have more than a basic understanding of electronics otherwise ask in S.E.B.
Bye. Jasen