Re: Communicating Large Files to NCL-Talk

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for bringing up this subject.

Whenever you send email to ncl-talk@ucar.edu with an attachment over 1.5 megabytes
in size, the mailman software holds it for approval by an ncl-talk mailman administrator
(usually me or Dave). We will usually reject the post if the attachment is over 2 megabytes.
When attaching scripts, it has to do with the size of the script, rather than how many lines
it contains.

But, we also ask that you try to clean up programs and data before you give them to us.
Many times we receive scripts that don't run "out of the box" and we end up having to
go through it to fix errors and paths. Many times we have to go back to the user
and get missing scripts, required environment variables, etc. This kind of back
and forth is very costly for us and can delay getting an answer to the user.

We have some general guidelines and FTP information at:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/report_bug.shtml

--Mary

On Nov 5, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Lunde, Bruce N CIV NAVOCEANO, NP1 wrote:

> Hello, Just a general comment about an issue that I'm
> sure has been addressed before.
>
> For the purposes of not filling up the mailboxes of
> help recipients (some of us have limited space), and
> for ease in reading emails to help with solutions,
> datafiles and large amounts of text/code should probably
> be communicated to NCL and the group via devices such as
> the NCL ftp site.
>
> The NCL people can give you options for how to get
> large files to them. Just let them know that you
> have a large file (data/code/text) which pertains
> to your problem.
>
> I'm not sure what some good rules of thumb might be,
> but when file sizes are somewhere between 500KB to 2MB,
> or the number of lines of code/text/data is somewhere
> between 500 to 11,000 lines, one might consider asking NCL
> by what method they would like to receive the data
> (I've given some pretty large ranges to play with).
>
> Are there already some general guidelines in place ?
>
> Thanks, Bruce
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