The ability to send screen shots
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Hi All
This message is to the administrators of this reflector. Might it be possible to have the ability to have small images, such as screen shots to be able to be passed via the reflector? They can be an amazing teaching and learning tool to help others see what is being discussed. In decades passed, this feature was turned off due to dial up modems and the images may have been a vehicle for virus payloads. Of course, dial up modems are long gone for 99% of the people and a properly patched computer will not now allow a program to run from an image. Most, if not all other reflectors allow for this feature to be available. Many thanks in advance for this consideration. Mike va3mw ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Hi Mike,
I believe 'links' are allowed on this reflector. Consider having images hosted on am image hosting site and provide a link to them, if that is not forbidden. A reader can choose to look or not. I have used imgur.com I'm not aware of any problems related to doing such, but I won't be surprised if I am soon informed. 8 ) Kind regards, Dick - KA5KKT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi All This message is to the administrators of this reflector. Might it be possible to have the ability to have small images, such as screen shots to be able to be passed via the reflector? They can be an amazing teaching and learning tool to help others see what is being discussed. In decades passed, this feature was turned off due to dial up modems and the images may have been a vehicle for virus payloads. Of course, dial up modems are long gone for 99% of the people and a properly patched computer will not now allow a program to run from an image. Most, if not all other reflectors allow for this feature to be available. Many thanks in advance for this consideration. Mike va3mw ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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In reply to this post by Michael Walker
No thanks ... please.
73 K0PP / N7HKW ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Walker <[hidden email]> Date: Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 15:56 Subject: [Elecraft] The ability to send screen shots To: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> Hi All This message is to the administrators of this reflector. Might it be possible to have the ability to have small images, such as screen shots to be able to be passed via the reflector? They can be an amazing teaching and learning tool to help others see what is being discussed. In decades passed, this feature was turned off due to dial up modems and the images may have been a vehicle for virus payloads. Of course, dial up modems are long gone for 99% of the people and a properly patched computer will not now allow a program to run from an image. Most, if not all other reflectors allow for this feature to be available. Many thanks in advance for this consideration. Mike va3mw ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Hi Dick
I considered links, arguably more dangerous, and as a pro photographer, I can make that happen. However, that turns a simple 10 second screen grab with GreenShot into a bit more of an exercise including using imgur, and yet another account, login exercise. Even with Yahoo Groups and IOGroups, screen shots are invaluable when working through an issue and makes problem solving better rather than someone saying 'it doesn't work' and then a large quantity of emails with a thousand new questions that no one reads anyway. We could go back to Fax machines or RTTY stick figures too! :) Mike va3mw On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:18 PM Dick Dickinson <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I believe 'links' are allowed on this reflector. > > Consider having images hosted on am image hosting site and provide a link > to > them, if that is not forbidden. > > A reader can choose to look or not. > > I have used imgur.com I'm not aware of any problems related to doing > such, > but I won't be surprised if I am soon informed. > > 8 ) > > Kind regards, > Dick - KA5KKT > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi All > > This message is to the administrators of this reflector. > > Might it be possible to have the ability to have small images, such as > screen shots to be able to be passed via the reflector? > > They can be an amazing teaching and learning tool to help others see what > is being discussed. > > In decades passed, this feature was turned off due to dial up modems and > the images may have been a vehicle for virus payloads. Of course, dial up > modems are long gone for 99% of the people and a properly patched computer > will not now allow a program to run from an image. > > Most, if not all other reflectors allow for this feature to be available. > > Many thanks in advance for this consideration. > > Mike va3mw > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I don't know if Mailman (the list server used by QTH.NET) can be set up
to allow HTML, but that would open the door to most everything asked behind this request. The problem is, that the moment one allows HTML formatting, it brings in a whole bunch of other tools, including scripting, that can do some pretty bad stuff. That's why, decades ago, the folks behind Mailman decided to strip HTML. I think most of us have our mail programs reasonably well locked down, but I would still lean away from allowing HTML. I haven't tried to attach a UUENCODED image, that might slip through, or it might not. I don't know if any mail clients can send those anymore. I do know that Thunderbird receives them just fine. 73 -- Lynn On 7/30/2019 7:17 PM, Michael Walker wrote: > Hi Dick > > I considered links, arguably more dangerous, and as a pro photographer, I > can make that happen. > > However, that turns a simple 10 second screen grab with GreenShot into a > bit more of an exercise including using imgur, and yet another account, > login exercise. > > Even with Yahoo Groups and IOGroups, screen shots are invaluable when > working through an issue and makes problem solving better rather than > someone saying 'it doesn't work' and then a large quantity of emails with a > thousand new questions that no one reads anyway. > > We could go back to Fax machines or RTTY stick figures too! :) > > Mike va3mw > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:18 PM Dick Dickinson <[hidden email]> > wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> I believe 'links' are allowed on this reflector. >> >> Consider having images hosted on am image hosting site and provide a link >> to >> them, if that is not forbidden. >> >> A reader can choose to look or not. >> >> I have used imgur.com I'm not aware of any problems related to doing >> such, >> but I won't be surprised if I am soon informed. >> >> 8 ) >> >> Kind regards, >> Dick - KA5KKT >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Hi All >> >> This message is to the administrators of this reflector. >> >> Might it be possible to have the ability to have small images, such as >> screen shots to be able to be passed via the reflector? >> >> They can be an amazing teaching and learning tool to help others see what >> is being discussed. >> >> In decades passed, this feature was turned off due to dial up modems and >> the images may have been a vehicle for virus payloads. Of course, dial up >> modems are long gone for 99% of the people and a properly patched computer >> will not now allow a program to run from an image. >> >> Most, if not all other reflectors allow for this feature to be available. >> >> Many thanks in advance for this consideration. >> >> Mike va3mw >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[hidden email] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [hidden email] >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Hi Dick,
You can upload the image to IMGUR after you set up account there then provide a link to the image that any one with a web browser on the Internet can view. Here is an example: <https://imgur.com/NjiwCWz> On 7/30/19 3:16 PM, Dick Dickinson wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I believe 'links' are allowed on this reflector. > > Consider having images hosted on am image hosting site and provide a link to > them, if that is not forbidden. > > A reader can choose to look or not. > > I have used imgur.com I'm not aware of any problems related to doing such, > but I won't be surprised if I am soon informed. > > 8 ) > > Kind regards, > Dick - KA5KKT > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi All > > This message is to the administrators of this reflector. > > Might it be possible to have the ability to have small images, such as > screen shots to be able to be passed via the reflector? > > They can be an amazing teaching and learning tool to help others see what > is being discussed. > > In decades passed, this feature was turned off due to dial up modems and > the images may have been a vehicle for virus payloads. Of course, dial up > modems are long gone for 99% of the people and a properly patched computer > will not now allow a program to run from an image. > > Most, if not all other reflectors allow for this feature to be available. > > Many thanks in advance for this consideration. > > Mike va3mw > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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In reply to this post by Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT-3
On 7/30/19 at 8:22 PM, [hidden email] (Lynn W.
Taylor, WB6UUT) wrote: >The problem is, that the moment one allows HTML formatting, it >brings in a whole bunch of other tools, including scripting, >that can do some pretty bad stuff. > >That's why, decades ago, the folks behind Mailman decided to strip HTML. > >I think most of us have our mail programs reasonably well >locked down, but I would still lean away from allowing HTML. As a retired computer security guy, I run a mail agent which doesn't render HTML. I assume that HTML email is from marketing people who are more interested in bling than in information. Also, while the HTML interpreters may have had most of their security bugs shaken out, they still allow tracking by the big tracking companies e.g. Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. When the mail agent fetches a piece of Javascript, the server can log your IP address and which piece of email issued the fetch, adding to the cache of information about you. 73 Bill AE6JV ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | When an old person dies, a | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | library burns. - Joe McGawon | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | Irish Ethnographer | Los Gatos, CA 95032 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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