Sorry, my bad. Correction below. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Since it seems to be necessary, I'll expand upon some of the advice > below: > > > ... If you're inserting a photo > > and you really want someone to see it, try covering all the bases > > by *both* pasting it in and *also* pasting in a link... > > OK, start by assuming that you can see the photo you're trying to > paste in on another website, in another page of your browser. Use > whatever procedure has worked for you in the past to click on that > photo, copy it, and paste it into your new message. > > But then, because many people are not seeing these pasted-in photos, > also add a direct URL to the photo. Back on the original website that > contains your source photo (*not* the still-unsent FFL post), right- > click (or its Mac counterpart) on the photo and select 'Copy Link > Location'.
That should be, on Windows, "Copy Image Location." > Then return to your FFL post and paste the text from > your Clipboard into the post, and then do whatever you normally > have to do to make links clickable. > > This way you're "covering the bases" and providing two different > ways to view the graphics, and at the same time not forcing the rest > of us to go through endless iterations of "Baaaw...my graphic didn't > show up" conversations. > > I'm suggesting that, given the current state of Yahoo, it's safest to > assume that your pasted-in graphics are *not* going to show up, > and thus to provide an alternative method for people to see them. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > s3raphitasez: > > > > > > OK - the picture didn't copy over - so please use the link. > > > Does anyone know why it is that though when I copied the image > > > into my post - and could see it had successfully made it - when it > > > appeared in FFL there was nothing there? > > > > For your information, I could see it just fine, on the Yahoo Groups > > web viewer, in your first post. Then again, I don't know whether > > you are posting from the "upgraded" Neo, or the older "classic" > > interface, and I'm still on the old one. Yahoo still hasn't had the > > balls to force people in France to use Neo yet. > > > > I don't think there is any way to predict what is going to show up > > in terms of clickable links or pasted-in photos at this point. There > > are simply too many variables. Some FFL readers are on one version > > of Neo, some are on another, still others (like me) are still on the > > old "classically bad" interface, which doesn't even work as it used > > to. Sometimes when I reply it quotes text, other times (like now) > > it doesn't, and I have to paste in what I'm replying to manually. > > > > It's just the nature of Yahoo, and Web-based apps. Yahoo has many > > servers all over the world, and it doesn't roll out the same version > > of software to all of them simultaneously. It rolls them out selec- > > tively, to "test audiences," so that it can filter their complaints > > geographically and use their own users as beta testers, instead > > of paying for QA. > > > > There doesn't seem to be much we can do about it, so my advice > > is to just "post and hope for the best." If you're inserting a photo > > and you really want someone to see it, try covering all the bases > > by *both* pasting it in and *also* pasting in a link, as you did. I've > > done that below with the same photo you posted. This is coming > > from my version of the old Yahoo Groups interface. I'd be willing > > to bet that when I look at it on the Yahoo website, I'll both be able > > to see the photo, and that the link will be clickable. But I'll also > > bet that this will not be true for others here. > > > > So it goes. It's like dealing with the caprice of the TM movement. > > One day entering a building through a South-facing doorway is > > cool, and normal, and the next it's the worst thing you could > > possibly do, and will fuck up your karma forever. :-) > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/qgfb3nq > > > > [Amelie and Elliott next to a body outside Westgate Shopping Mall in > > Nairobi] > > >
