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[Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>]

On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:42 PM, John S wrote:

> I use dialup and would like pictures.  My email lets me decide to download or not, picture attachments.

I now have semi-broadband and would still rather have a link to pictures than have pictures posted in the email itself; it works better for the way I like to save things. And Ginda's right; the rules do seem to be text only.

Why not post a link to the pictures? Anyone can then see them who wants to, without any annoyance being posed to those who don't want to. Others often do this.

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly


> --- On Sun, 7/27/08, Ginda Fisher  wrote:
> > On Jul 27, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Road's End Farm wrote:
> >
> > > On Jul 21, 2008, at 6:48 PM, John S wrote:
> > >
> > > > What is the policy with posting pics to this list? I have a nice pic of the fruit eating wasps that plague me. It also seems to me that a few pictures would have been of great help to the yellow jacket controversy. Pictures are valuable. Is there a way do this or get this started here?
> > >
> > > If there's an official policy, I'm not the one who knows it; but I believe there are still people on this list with slow dial-up connections. Pictures can tie up a dial up line for a significant number of minutes per picture, and not everyone wants to automatically block all large emails from coming through, as they may expect large files from someone else. People will often post a link to the pictures, rather than the pictures themselves, for this reason. There are a number of sites that will host the pictures so as to make this possible, though I haven't got recommendations.
> > >
> > > --Rivka
> >
> > Actually, I think the official policy is attached to every post
> > "Use plain text ONLY in emails!"
> > So pics are discouraged, but not actually stripped by the system.
> >
> > It's much friendlier the slow-connection folks to post a link. I confess I once posted a picture on purpose, because I'm too lazy to figure out how to use any of those free photo-hosting sites, and set up an account, and all that. But I did make sure it was a small file.
> >
> > Ginda Fisher
> > eastern MA, zone 6