All posts in the topic Posting Photos (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Bill Kahn (D) at 2007 Mar 05 17:19 UTC
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| Tim Erickson | tim-in-morning.JPG | 2007 Mar 05 15:21 UTC |
Don't know if this is possible or not, but since we've been
discussing McMansions on e-democracy.org/mpls this week, I had
the idea that people might be interesting in sending in photos
of the structures...could a folder be set up in the Files sections
and then...say jpgs of a certain size posted there...?
What about captions (with Addresses) would we have to use
a photo editing program to add those to each photo or be
able to embed photos in a page?
Madeline Douglass
Kingfield
> Don't know if this is possible or not, but since we've been
> discussing McMansions on e-democracy.org/mpls this week, I had
> the idea that people might be interesting in sending in photos
> of the structures...could a folder be set up in the Files sections
> and then...say jpgs of a certain size posted there...?
> What about captions (with Addresses) would we have to use
> a photo editing program to add those to each photo or be
> able to embed photos in a page?
I'm repling to this message, that is almost a month old. Because, it highlights
one of the cool new features of our software that has not yet gotten much
attention. I'd love to hear some feedback on this.
For the first time EVER. You can now send attachments directly to
E-Democracy.Org groups (via email) that are hosted on Groupserver, including
photos.
Attachments (or photos) are NOT delivered to group members via email. HOWEVER,
they are stripped from the incoming email and automatically added to the groups
files section - AND a link to the file (or photo) is inserted into the email
message.
I'm attaching a photo of myself, just after I got out of bed this morning, to
this message to demonstrate. Follow the link for a real shock! (suitable for
all ages)
What do folks think about this feature?
Tim Erickson
E-Democracy.Org
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On 3/5/07, Tim Erickson <email obscured> wrote:
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> What do folks think about this feature?
Brilliant! I was thinking of sending BH a shot of the new private security
guards in their luminous jackets but could not be bothered to sort out the
hosting and linking of it but this would be perfect, thanks.
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:23:03 +1300 (NZDT), Tim Erickson wrote:
>Attachments (or photos) are NOT delivered to group members via email. HOWEVER,
they are stripped from the incoming email and automatically added to the groups
files section - AND a link to the file (or photo) is inserted into the email
message.
As an email subscriber, that works very nicely. (And it's good to have
the reference pic, in case I ever meet you on the beach.)
I trust you've built in some checking to prevent those 8 megapixel
pictures that camera owners don't seem to know how to size for society.
At the same time, I'd like to renew my plea for email to add a header
line with the group as the "reply-to" address. Since it's a public
forum, it seems to me that replies to the group should be the default.
Just about every other mailing list I subscribe to (these days, most
seem to be yahoo groups) does it that way. And I'm forever hitting
reply (my mailreader, like all civilized mailreaders, does NOT default
to "reply all"), sending my post, and then wondering why it hasn't
appeared.
I too am a big fan of this feature. Let's start using it. Tim, why don't we recommend publicly that all uploaded pictures be reduced in size to less than 500K with none left above 1MB? In the next round of feature requests (which we will need to raise money for from participants) I'd like to see automatic thumbnails generated from photos that are inserted into the post/topic. Cheers, Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: email obscured Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - Skype/MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift Join Democracies Online: http://dowire.org Start an Issues Forum: http://e-democracy.org/if
On 3/5/07, Steven Clift <email obscured> wrote:
>
> In the next round of feature requests (which we will need to raise
> money for from participants) I'd like to see automatic thumbnails
> generated from photos that are inserted into the post/topic.
Should be doable using imagemajik
Also: can we post PDFs/Word docs.
Hopefully the former counts as an image ;)
Tim's photo certainly was a shock. Do you always wake up female, Tim?
That sort of leads to a concern some might have: objectionable
materials. I am okay with a female walrus posing as a human male, but
will others be so?
I can only recall one complaint of objectionable material on the St.
Paul Issues Forum, but I guess the potential is there for abuse of
some kind (like I said, I'm okay with Tim Erickson's material, but in
St. Paul? Who knows?). The rules already forbid attachments. We seem
to need a new rule.
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