The attachment policy

[GooRoo]

You may have noticed the new item immediately under "Subject:" which is "Attachment:".

What this meanz is that you may now upload your Gruntz Custom Levelz directly to me here at "GooRoo's Gruntz Forum" without going through your e-mail server (and mine)!

There is a limit, however ... 50KB per attachment.

Since I am cheap, there is a total attachment limit of 100KB for the entire Forum. So when you send an attachment, I have to (fairly quickly) process it, then delete the attachment. Probably, what will happen if there is an accumulation of attachmentz exceeding the 100KB limit is that the next person will be unable to send their attachment. Perhaps (I pray it isn't so!) ProBoards would bill me for exceeding the 100KB free space limit. I have not read the information about expanded file space for attachments (only scanned it), so it may be that the price for expanded file space is reasonable. (I seem to recall something about $2.00 (2 creditz) for xx amount of space ... the value of 'xx' is what I cannot recall at this time.)

Only .wwd filez (Gruntz Custom Level mapz) will be accepted here!
All other filez will be deleted, unopened ... ASAP!

Edit: Okay, I just read the attachment agreement, and the cost is 2 creditz ($2.00) per month for 20MB of space. That's not so bad, for the amount I foresee this Forum using (20MB should be overkill!). The downside is the per month, which is a calendar month ... frugality sayz to start on the 1^st of the month (whatever month). On the 1^st of the following month, the attachmentz are gone! There is lotz of room for losing thingz sent on the last few dayz of the month. The only way to prevent such losses would be to apply creditz in advance, and I am reluctant to go that route. (I pay 6 monthz at a time for the space at Neron Hosting, where we are currently using 116.6MB of 400MB that I am paying for already.)

P.S. Until there is actually an attachment to a post, I have no idea how I would go about deleting one after it has been processed ... there is absolutely nothing in what I have read about managing the attachment(z) stored.

[oldone]

(Here we go again ## ) I don't see anything that says 'attachment'. I looked in the PMs too.

[GooRoo]

It only appearz when you are creating a new post. (It doesn't even show up when one is editting an existing post ... so don't SAVE a post, and then remember that you were supposed to have made an attachment. You won't have an opportunity to add it to the post you just made.)

[Gamer]

Is attaching things here so much better than simply e-mailing them to you? It would support beta-testing before submitting it to the public also to send by e-mail. If it was free maybe, but I think the cost outweighs the benefits.

[GooRoo]

100KB is free ... anything beyond that would cost $2.00 per 20MB per month. Since the very largest (so far!) Gruntz Custom Level 'weighz in' at about 46KB, I set the 'per attachment' value to 50KB. The 100KB of free space should be sufficient for our needz ... unless people go wild with attaching thingz to posts in the Forum.

[GooRoo]

I have just made a change to the permissions in the BETA Custom Level Board to allow everyone to make attachmentz to their threads ... said attachment should be limitted to the *.wwd member (Custom Level map), because those are generally well under 50KB each. Even then, only two attachmentz (three or four at most) may be made before I have to move them out (delete them) to my hard drive, and then to my web host. That 100KB limit still applies. And the process of deleting attachmentz seemz to do strange thingz to the threadz themselvez, so please bear with me if the thread suddenly becomes 'locked' or otherwise inaccessible for some reason. I will do whatever I can to restore access ASAP.