The response from Flickr quoted below was 12 hours ago, but the issue
was not fixed. I just sent a message to Ruby-talk and got the Flickr
error message back. Gmail is my mail app, so from all the other
reports we know this is not at all conected to the client-side apps.

Cheers,

Luciano


On 11/27/06, Trans <transfire / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gregory Brown wrote:
> > When I post to RubyTalk, I've been getting a 'your photo upload
> > failed' message from flickr.
> >
> > Weird!   Anyone else seeing this?
>
> Yes. And I've already contactee them. This is waht they said:
>
>   Hello,
>
>   Flickr allows its users to upload photos via email to a
>   secret email address tied to their account.  These can be
>   uploads from a cameraphone or other device, or a script, or
>   a regular ol' email client.  When we encounter problems with
>   the upload, we respond back to the email address that the
>   upload was sent from to let them know.  In this case, the
>   email appeared to be from a mailing list you are a member
>   of, so the error response got sent there.  I've added the
>   address of your mailing list to our block list to make sure
>   this doesn't happen again, and gotten in touch with the user
>   involved to try and figure out if these upload attempts were
>   done on purpose or not.
>
>   Thanks for your report.
>
>   Cheers,
>   Myles
>
> T.
>
>
>