Hi, Singh ji, I think all options like giving links of pictures at Flickr, Picasa etc. should be allowed in the present circumstances.
On 8 March 2012 16:50, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members > As all of you know, the Convolvulaceae Week scheduled for this week was > postponed due to sudden reduction of mail size (incl. attachment) to 100 > kb, to find solutions and alternate ways of communicating. After a lot R & > D by many of us including Garg ji, Pankaj ji, Balkar ji, Vijayasankar and > today hectic trials by mainly Dinesh ji, Surajit ji, Giby ji, Satish ji and > myself it has been decided to go ahead with the Comvolvulaceae Week from > coming Monday, March 12 to continue up to 18th March. The members are > requested to use any of these options as per their convenience, though > first option is to be preferred. > > 1. Members can use Google docs (link https://docs.google.com/#home); you > may have to log in to Google to access it. Click on *Create * button on > top left (red) and select document. Working as you do in Microsoft word set > the page size to A3 and then insert images one after another, taking care > that each image as usual should be 800 x 600 (it wont accept image larger > than 2000 x 2000 pixels). Please remember to write information about the > plant (Botanical name, place, habit, habitat or any other information that > you want to share on the top of the page. Please remember to label each > picture so that images can be properly documented and discussed. Please > remember to click *untitled document* and enter the subject line (for > Convolvulaceae members coming week it would be "Convolvulaceae Week: > ..............(name of plant) from ...........(place)" or "Convolvulaceae > Week: ..........................(Unique ID) for ID from > ..............(place)". Save the file. Now you have two options. Choose > which ever is convenient to you: > A: Preferred option: click *share *(top right blue button) . The > first option should be *Private - Only the people listed below can > access. *In the Add people window enter > email ID of the group ([email protected]), on > right side change option can edit to *can view, *Next tick the option *Paste > the item itself into the email. * > Next click* Share and Save. *This way your images will appear > directly in the email. Mail may be longer and members may have to scroll > down but they don't have to > click a thumbnail to see an image. It will save them a lot of > time. > B. Alternately simply choose the option of *Email as attachment *from > File menu, enter email of the group in next window and send. This way the > doc file will be attached > at the bottom of email. No thumbnail or image would be visible > to the members, but once they click *view* on the attachment whole file > with text and will be visible. > * Members using this option are requested to write information > in the mail body and not in document containing images, so that it is > visible to the * > * members in the mail **itself.* > * > * > 2. Use the old method but attach only one or two images (total size less > than 100 kb), In subsequent mails in the same thread you can add more > images. > > > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1820 members & 1,10,000 messages on 29/2/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
