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Oscar
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Initially Posted - 03/03/2004 : 09:59:13

Greetings all,

There are, still, some of us who are held hostage by a variety of circumstances, and are tied to the internet with a dial up modem....some as slow as 28kbps.

As much as we enjoy posted pictures, sometimes the thread will take a different turn further down, and other topics are discussed. In order to follow these threads we have to sit there every time and wait for the pictures to down load......we're talking minutes here....

May I offer a suggestion. If you have a large picture, or a large number of pictures, instead of posting them all here, please provide a link, or links, to where the pictures are. This way we can go there to see them, but the thread itself stays lean and mean......

Thank you....(and please, do keep the pictures coming.)

Oscar, in Austin TX, making bu's.

Lady Kay IV, Dragonfly 25 # 54 Former C30#618-C250WB#618-C42#76

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 11:42:10

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 11:55:11

I agree -- please link to large images.
-- Leon Sisson {sailing along at 50Kbaud on a good day}

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Scott L
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 13:28:49

I agree, there are so many GREAT topics to be viewed on this forum and with my slow internet connection, it adds up to quite a bit of waiting sometimes, SOMETIMES.

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 13:31:05

Oscar,

That's a good point! Especially for those who some braodband access, and load things quickly. I don't or haven't loaded many pictures, but it would be good to use a hyperlink to the picture, rather than the picture.

That would also help with the super wide images that we sometimes encounter, that make it mecessary to scroll the horizontal width to read each line. I often find I don't bother reading those threads and probably miss alot of good stuff.

That's my loss

, but if we had "normal size pictures, that would help, or having hyperlinks, as Oscar has suggested.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 14:02:55

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Oscar
 Greetings all,

There are, still, some of us who are held hostage by a variety of circumstances, and are tied to the internet with a dial up modem....some as slow as 28kbps.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Now Oscar; I used to travel a lot. The vast majority of nice hotels have broadband available for $5-$10 a day. Are you saying that your employer needs to step up and acknowledge your needs?

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Ellis Bloomfield
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 15:08:59

Ditto to all of the above and Oscar brought up another point. Rather than head off in an unrelated issue on a thread, why not post a new one with a descriptive subject. Subjects such as "suprise" "guess what", etc. are an aggravation. The forum is great but most of us pick and choose what we read.

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coach
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 17:53:19

Good idea, but if they are not posted on the internet. How do we get them posted on here if I have the pics on disk

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 20:27:15

Coach,

See the sticky on the testing forum. It explains the entire process.

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frankr
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Response Posted - 03/03/2004 : 21:02:05

One more thing one can do is to turn off "view signatures " in your profile. Quite a few posters have big bandwidth signatures - at home I live with 28800 if no snow plows have hit the phone junction boxes lately - so anything I can do helps.

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cch
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 : 00:39:29

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Coach,

See the sticky on the testing forum. It explains the entire process.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Don,

Thanks for your great instructions on posting photos on the forum. Sorry to be a bit slow here, but my question is this: I have been posting photos using your directions, does that mean these photos are linked to a location on the internet and anyone connecting with a dial up connection only downloads or "sees" these photos if they choose to spend the time to download them?

I love to post photos and really enjoy the photos posted by others but I also understand the thought to keep the threads clean and quickly viewed. I could use a bit of help to be sure I am posting photos which work well for everyone on the forum.

Thanks for any help.

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 : 06:16:26

Chris,

My guess is that if you list the location of the photo from the shutterfly site, it will be a live link to the picture. If someone clicks on the picture, it will (the picture) will come up. I'll try it and see.

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 : 06:27:08

Chris,

See the testing forum, and the post picture link, or something like that.

When ready to post the link, click on the "Insert hyperlink" button on the top of the page.

will be listed.

Place cursor in the middle of that and the the address of the link will be listed.

Then in the message, the hot link will appear, and if you click on that the picture pops up.

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 03/04/2004 : 07:23:03

One more suggestion... a reminder... as this has been pointed out several times by others.

When posting a link... jump up to the Format Mode box and change it from Basic to Prompt... Doing so offers three benefits.

1. It provides that the poster give the link a descriptive name that the reader better understands what the link is to.

2. It avoids a long link that will expand the page formatting into the dreaded zone of having to scan the screen right and left to read all the post sumbmitted in the thread. I agree with Don and like him usually don't read threads after this has happened.

3. It places the link in the text rather than having to paste it between two cryptic marks.

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