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Re: [GMCnet] The risk of publishing GMC info on Social Media [message #188287 is a reply to message #188281] Thu, 25 October 2012 21:50 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Byron Songer is currently offline  Byron Songer   United States
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The procedure works for Forum users. And, yes, it would be great if those
posting via the Forum would always included the link to the embedded photo.
However, people being people, something will break down along the way.

Those of use reading posts via our email apps and responding accordingly
can't embed a photo unless we put in the url appropriately. Most of use
using email clients strip down to raw text at 80 columns. Hence, you can
easily tell if someone is posting via the Forum or their email client to the
GMCNet.

So, this is all well and good for posting pictures, etc. However, the
original issue remains -- putting stuff somewhere and loosing
control/access.

Also, there's the whole thing of trying to get things organized somehow so
that new users/owner don't have to spend four months learning how to search
all over creation when they could be fixing or driving their GMCs.

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Kerry Pinkerton wrote:

>
>
> To be honest, I had not considered the email folks. I whined about moving to
> forums about 10 years back but after about 10 minutes, I saw the light.
> Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!
>
> Anyway, I THINK that Al came up with a simple solution, that is to post the
> LINK and the PHOTO.
>
> Like this. This is the link which was a simple paste into the thread of the
> same URL as the photo image (right click on the photo of choice, select copy
> image location, and copy to clipboard by pressing CNTL and C at the same time)
>
> http://images.craigslist.org/5L95Gd5K23k13L53Hac97e56df4ac338d15e4.jpg
>
> and this is the Photo image which was the same URL pasted into the image box
>
>
>
> Simple enough solution it seems to me. Email users get the text and if they
> want to see the corresponding photo, they can click on it. Forum users see
> the photos inline with the descriptions.
>
> Would an email user verify that you see the link and it is clickable?
>
> As far as bandwidth goes, the read request pulls the text from the forum
> software and parses out the image requests which results in a read request to
> the image server. The image is sent back and placed in the appropriate date
> stream to the requestor. The GMCNet sees NO additional bandwidth. However,
> the photo site has to respond to the image requests every time the post is
> requested (read).


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