Here you can find a list of free NNTP servers: Newsserver), and accepts binary attachments. Make sure the newsserver to which you'll send your messages accepts posting (i.e.
Once you have splitted the file, you can post it to the newsgroup. A size of about 700Kb should be good, considering that binaries attachment are encoded, and grows of 1/4 of their original size, and theĪddictional bytes required for the header and the rest of the body of the message, so that the total size of the message will be lower than 1Mb. It's better not to create too many small chunks because some of them could be lost passing from newsserver to newsserver, and you'll have to repost them, in order to
The most popular tool to split large files into chunks in the Windows environment is Mastersplitter, which purpose is "to split large files in order to move them via floppies orįor transmission via E-mail." It also can Join chunks or Compare them to verify they are the same of the original file.Īll you have to do is to launch Mastersplitter, enter the name of the large file you want to split, enter the size (for example, 700Kb).Īnyway, splitting files is not so hard, and you can easily write by yourself a file splitter in C or in QBasic. General rule, if the file you want to send is larger than 1Mb you'll have to split it into smaller files. Since most newservers limit the size of binary files attached to the messages, you may split a large file into smaller chunks and attack them to several messages. The purpose of this article is to explain how to upload and download binary files to a newsgroup, with a particular attention to large files sent in multiple posts. NOTE: At the end of this article you'll find a list of all the programs I'll talk about, with the URLs to download them. It doesn't mean in any way I'm connected with that newsgroup. If you find this document posted in a newsgroup by someone else, IMPORTANT: I made this document available on the Web. The latest version of this document can be found at
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