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Last-modified: 2007/03/14
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The newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.joanne-guest contains postings relating to the UK model Joanne Guest.
This mini-FAQ is intended to serve as an introduction to the newsgroup. If you want to find out more about Jo herself, you can view the full FAQ at:
http://www.zedtoo.demon.co.uk/jgfaq/
(Editor's note: Bear in mind that the charter was written in
1997)
alt.binaries.pictures.joanne-guest is a group for the posting of binary images related to the UK model Joanne Guest.
Joanne Guest is the hottest individual of that type of English model known as the "glamour girl" - a group generally best known for their topless work in Britain's tabloid newspapers, appearances at pubs, various singing aspirations, and being caught out on the town canoodling with married footballers, politicians, ambassadors, and each other.
Jo has a more professional approach than your typical "glamour girl"
and has recently diversified her career into TV - making appearances
on Celebrity quiz shows and pop music videos. She has also crossed
over into the mainstream print media with appearances in Loaded and
FHM magazines in the UK.
The group will be unmoderated and any binary posting related to Joanne Guest is considered on-topic. Any other binaries or discussions are considered to be off-topic.
In addition to the basic rules of "netiquette", the guidelines given below should be followed:
Remember that ALL photographs of Jo are copyright [1]. The copyright holder (usually the photographer, or the publisher of the magazine) still "owns" the picture, even when you have paid money for a copy of it.
If you want to distribute copies of a picture (e.g. by posting it to Usenet) you should seek the approval of the copyright holder in advance. Copyright holders can - and in many cases do - bring legal action against people who post their pictures to Usenet without permission. Do you want to take that risk?
[1] Actually, all photographs of any sort taken in the last 60-odd years are copyright, but you probably didn't want to know that :-)
It's a sad fact of life that not all news-servers carry the newsgroup, and others may carry it but no longer get a reliable newsfeed.
Don't rush to conclusions if you see very little traffic on your first visit. The number of messages in the newsgroup does vary substantially from day to day: the average is around 50 on-topic messages per day, but on a quiet day there can be as few as 1 or 2 messages.
However, if you've gone more than a week with no messages (or very few messages) it may be time to look elsewhere for a newsfeed.
Likewise, if you're only seeing very few of the multi-part postings (e.g. if only 5 parts of a 25-part file ever arrive) you might also want to consider a change of news-servers.
Some newsreaders don't automatically decode file attachments (especially if the picture is posted in several parts); others occasionally fail to notice that an attachment is present.
What happens is that you get a load of stuff looking like this:
M%A(8?1HE)B(H*2HT-38W.#DZ0T1%1D=(24I35%565UA96F-D969G:?EJ(W1U
M=G=X)7J#A(6?AXB)BI*3E)66EYB9FJ*CI*6FIZBIJK*SM+6VM[BYNL+#Q,7?
MQ\C)RM+3U-76U]C9VN'BX^3EYN?HZ)KQ\O/T]?;W^/GZ_\0`'P$``P$!`0$!
M`0$!`0````````$'`P0%!@(('0H+_\0`M1$``@$'!`0#!`(%!`0``0)W``$'
Note that all of the lines are the same length, and are relatively short (61 characters in this case). If the lines are a lot longer than this (e.g. 128 characters), it may be a yEnc file, which requires special processing (see below).
The first thing to try is to see if your newsreader can combine and decode the various parts of the message. For example, with Microsoft Outlook Express, you would download all the parts of the message, select part 1 of the message, SHIFT-select (or CTRL-select) the remaining parts, then right-mouse-click over the selection. The pop-up-menu will have "Combine and Decode" on it.
Bear in mind that you do need all of the parts of the file. If only a few parts are missing, ask for a repost. If more than half the parts are missing, you may need to consider switching to another news-server (see above).
If you're using a newsreader that can't "combine and decode" you will have to decode the posting using a UUdecoder program. See Appendix 3 of the full FAQ for instructions.
The amount of traffic on Usenet these days is phenomenal, and some news-servers simply can't handle the load. This can mean that some parts of a multi-part posting are lost.
Remember there can be a delay of several hours before all the various parts of a message arrive at a news-server (and, like everything else, news-servers do have bad days). But if the problem persists for several weeks it's probably there to stay.
Another problem is to do with article retention. Some news-servers only keep "binary" newsgroup postings for a few hours (compared to the days or weeks that are the norm for other newsgroups). This one is fairly easy to spot: if you only log-on once a week and all you ever see in a.b.p.j-g are today's postings, your news-server has a very short retention period.
If you're just missing a few parts, ask for a repost of those parts. If you're missing a lot of parts, you may need to switch to another news-server.
Those files are actually multi-volume RAR archives. Each part of the archive has a separate extension, with .rar being the first. So, for example, a 5-part archive called clip would consist of: clip.rar, clip.r00, clip.r01, clip.r02 and clip.r03
RAR is an archiving program similar in concept to PKZIP, so the archives could (in theory) contain pretty much anything. On a.b.p.j-g, they're almost certain to contain an AVI (or MPEG) video clip.
Now to the nitty-gritty.
Mac users should get "Macunrar" - a beta version is available from http://www.inforoute.cgs.fr/dufay/ - and follow the instructions that come with the program.
PC users should get the "WinRAR" program from http://www.rarlabs.com/
Next, make sure you've got all the parts of the archive, saved as separate files in the same folder. For a 5-part archive you should have .rar, .r00, .r01, .r02 and .r03. If any are missing, ask for a repost.
To unpack the archive, feed the .rar file to WinRAR. This will automatically process the other parts, resulting in a decoded AVI (or MPEG) file.
One final piece of information you may need when unpacking some RAR archives, is that Jo's vital statistics are: 34B-24-34
Another day, another file format...
"yEnc" is a format that is becoming increasingly common on Usenet. It is a bit of a pain, because some of the most widely-used newsreaders don't handle it yet, and some news-servers have an annoying habit of mangling the posts.
At first sight, a yEnc message can look rather like a UUencoded message. There are two clues that it's a yEnc message:
So, how do you decode it? Essentially, you have three choices:
Remember, possesion of a decoder does NOT guarantee that you'll be able to unpack a given file. Some news-servers can damage the encoded files: if you find you get errors when unpacking yEnc-encoded files, you may have to change to a different news-server.
Don't.
Depends on your definition of "hardcore"...
In the latter part of 2005 Jo did a few solo webcasts featuring a marital aid. Some screenshots are apparently doing the rounds.
But if you're after m/f stuff, you may be disappointed. In the early part of her career (mostly 1993/1994) she did appear in some "racy" photoshoots, but to quote Jo herself: "that was all posed ... if I was going to do it for real I'd [do it differently and] make a lot more money."
There are a few fake pictures in circulation: some are laughably bad, but with others it can be difficult to detect the fakery.
For further details, see the full FAQ.
Those pictures are taken from Japanese CDs. The censorship laws in Japan are (or were) stricter than those in the UK/USA, hence the modifications to the offending portions of the pictures.
In total there are well over 16000 images of Ms. Guest currently floating around the Internet: picking unique filenames for this vast number of images can be a bit of a problem.
Here are some suggestions:
Most of Jo's pictures date from before 1998, when long filenames were less common. The majority of these scans use a file naming convention proposed by Armin Forker.
For magazines, the filename is constructed like this:
e.g. Babe Hound magazine, June 1997, picture 7 of set, scanned by IM would be "bh9767im.jpg"
For daily publications, this becomes:
For calendars, put the letter "C" after the source magazine code
(e.g. Motor Cycle News Calendar 1996: mcc96*.jpg)
For "best of" compilations, put the letter "B" after the source
magazine code
(e.g. Best of Mayfair 14: mfb14*.jpg)
The source magazine codes are listed in Appendix 2 of the full FAQ. And yes, she HAS appeared in all those magazines.....
The full Joanne Guest FAQ is available online at:
http://www.zedtoo.demon.co.uk/jgfaq/
If the full FAQ doesn't answer your question, by all means ask away in the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.joanne-guest. But make sure it's on-topic, hmmm?
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