About Movies

I Just posted an message about the Ashyea movie Containing stills, i have
just realised that our group strips the pictures out. Can i ask why?
it would make it easier to share bits of the series if it didn't.

Thanks
TMN


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> I Just posted an message about the Ashyea movie Containing stills,
> i have just realised that our group strips the pictures out. Can i
> ask why? it would make it easier to share bits of the series if it
> didn't.

SHADO is configured to strip out all attachments. Generally if someone
has put an attachment into an email, that means it could be a BIG
email. And there are 500+ people on this list, many of whom don't want
to have big emails coming into their mailbox.

Also, I believe that Yahoo Groups no longer archives attachments, so
even if I allowed attachments, they wouldn't be saved in the archives,
and people who read SHADO via the web wouldn't see them.

So instead of e-mail attachments, you need to upload files somewhere
and let us know where it is. For example, the SHADO "files" area is
available to anyone here for uploading, and there's lot of free or
cheap web space available.

Speaking of the web, it seems that the amount of development on UFO fan
websites is much lower than it was 5 years ago (when several people
were developing UFO related sites). I wonder what happened -- I mean,
today UFO is available on DVD, there is merchandise being released, and
SHADO has more subscribers than ever before. Yet the amount of UFO fan
websites seems to actually be decreasing - for example, whatever
happened to Angelo Finamore's great UFO collection site?

Marc

Oh Marc Just to say that the pictures I sent were not attachments but pasted
directly into email. I know this striping of pictures must set by moderator
for other groups I belong to are able to send pictures in email to the group.

TMN


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We don't care. No one wants the pictures sent unsolicited, so upload
them to files area.

[hidden email] wrote:

> Oh Marc Just to say that the pictures I sent were not attachments but
> pasted directly into email. I know this striping of pictures must set
> by moderator for other groups I belong to are able to send pictures
> in email to the group.

Yes, but did you know that the people who are in digest mode don't
receive those pictures? And those pictures are no longer accessible
via the Yahoo Groups message archive? So you're really not sending
pictures which are viewable by everyone who reads the mailing list --
just those who have their settings at "receive individual emails".

But that's not why I have attachments disabled here. It's a simple
matter that I don't want people sending huge file attachments out to
hundreds of people who don't want their inbox clogged up. As someone
who runs a website, I've had several occasions when somebody sends me
files I never asked for, didn't want, and were huge (one was 14
megabytes, and was about Roswell aliens!). Before I had a high speed
connection, this was really annoying. And a lot of people here still
don't have high speed connections.

Marc

[hidden email] wrote:
> I Just posted an message about the Ashyea movie Containing
> stills, i have just realised that our group strips the pictures
> out. Can i ask why? it would make it easier to share bits of the
> series if it didn't.
>

Attachments are very irritating for mailing list subscribers -
mainly people just want to discuss topics in plain text, not wade
through megabytes of peoples' favorite photos. You can upload
photos to the group area so people can choose whether to spare
them the modem time or not.

[hidden email] wrote:
> Oh Marc Just to say that the pictures I sent were not attachments
> but pasted directly into email. I know this striping of pictures
> must set by moderator for other groups I belong to are able to
> send pictures in email to the group.
>

That only works for HTML mail, and some people don't want to
receive HTML mail under any circumstances, myself included.

Hi all,

While pondering my policy towards list attachments, I just noticed that
SHADO just had an anniversary -- we are now 9 years old!

Of course, Yahoo Groups hasn't been around for 9 years, but this list
was once on a different server and called "FAB-UFO". I started this
list way back on August 27, 1994. "Ancient history" in Internet
terms. I never had any idea that we'd still be here discussing the
show 9 years later! I just thought (at the time) that it was a shame
that there was virtually nothing about UFO on the Internet. My, how
times have changed... :-)

Marc

Hi Marc, Happy Anniversary. Only found SHADO site 21/2 years ago. Have
been a UFO fan since first saw show in the Early 70's. Enjoy site and wish
for many more years to come. Thanks you, Elaine


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More importantly, this helps prevent (if not outright eliminate) email borne
virus' from being sent to members.

Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Martin" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] About Movies

I think you're to blame Marc! :)

People have only so much time to surf the Web -- and only so much
time/interest in maintaining a Web site. If the Web site owner finds that his
site isn't being visited enough to warrant updating, then eventually it's
taken down.

I think the popular ones survive (like yours) and the less popular go by the
wayside. I think it tends to happen all throughout various fandoms. Another
possibility is that groups of fans tend to do things at the same time (perhaps
inspired by other sites,etc) and that same energy dissipates as time moves on.

Just my .02

Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Martin" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] About Movies


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> Speaking of the web, it seems that the amount of development on UFO fan
> websites is much lower than it was 5 years ago (when several people
> were developing UFO related sites). I wonder what happened -- I mean,
> today UFO is available on DVD, there is merchandise being released, and
> SHADO has more subscribers than ever before. Yet the amount of UFO fan
> websites seems to actually be decreasing - for example, whatever
> happened to Angelo Finamore's great UFO collection site?
>
> Marc

> I just noticed that SHADO just had an
> anniversary -- we are now 9 years old!

Hi Marc,

and Happy Anniversary!
Well, your group gets what it deserves: a long time running :-)

> I just thought (at the time) that it
> was a shame that there was virtually
> nothing about UFO on the Internet.
> My, how times have changed... :-)

And I didn't believe to find something on the internet when I
searched for UFO in 1997 but the first thing I found was your
website, Marc. And neither did I believe that I would be able to make
a contribution to you and your group(s). Gave me a lot of enjoyment
and pleasure in all these years!

It's great that you *took* your time to build up this *fab* homepage
and start the FAB-UFO group against all odds (e.g. the wishes of your
wife ;-)!

A big thanks for all this, Marc!
(and best wishes to your wife :-)
Christian

> Yet the amount of UFO fan websites seems
> to actually be decreasing - for example, whatever
> happened to Angelo Finamore's great UFO collection site?

Marc,

I wrote to Angelo in February and he replied:

my web sites UFO Merchandise Collection and THE ART OF UFO aren't
online now

to the moment I don't know if in future it came back on line

my new web site is for the my painting:
http://www.angelofinamore.com
but it is OT about UFO...

So maybe he changed his priorities for some time.
But I'm sure one day he'll come back :-)

Christian

Hi Christian
I had a Look at your gallery, I like the stlye of the pictures, they remind
of the art that the alien in The ALIEN films was based on. I really cant
remeber that artists name; but I think you would like his work, Any way cool stuff.

TMN


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Happy anniversary !!!

TMN


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--- TheMagiciansNphU@a... wrote:

> Hi Christian
> I had a Look at your gallery, I like
> the stlye of the pictures, they remind
> of the art that the alien in The ALIEN
> films was based on. I really cant
> remeber that artists name; but I think
> you would like his work, Any way cool stuff.
>
> TMN

Er... there's a misunderstanding:
this isn't *my* gallery, it is from Angelo Finamore :-)
And Angelo is a fan of H.R. Giger (which did the Alien design).

Christian

>Marc Martin <[hidden email]>
wrote:
I just noticed that
>SHADO just had an anniversary -- we are now 9 years old!

I never had any idea that we'd still be here discussing the
>show 9 years later! I just thought (at the time) that it was a shame
>that there was virtually nothing about UFO on the Internet. My, how
>times have changed... :-)

And aren't we all so very grateful that they have! Giive yourself a big pat
on the back, Marc!!!
Yours,
Denise

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Hi Marc and all the SHADO list :)

Well done, Happy 9th Anniversary (Wow! that's a long time in web years!)
that's when I first got involved in web sites... though I had been using the
internet since 1990.

Here's to another 9 and many years.... how many years is that in UFO years?
That's the trouble with a futuristic series made in the sixties/seventies,
based in the eighties, and appreciated well into the noughties... and it
still seems fairly futuristic!

Best, Griff

BTW... did you know that the internet (Arpanet) first came into being in
1969. Was first tested while man was on the Moon... about the same time that
UFO was first in production :)

I , for one, am danged glad you did form the site, as it started my
chain that eventually led me to be able to feed my long lost starvation for
UFO episodes, it got me my tapes, and everything. Before I found the site, I
could find no other references to UFO anywhere in the world basically....
Now I know I'm not alone and a freak....
So thanks, Marc!

Way to go Marc.
Happy 9 years.
Steve Christensen


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