I beg to differ. Years ago I clicked on an image that came to me by email and got a nasty virus! Hubby had a couple from doc files being passed around his company. I have yet to receive one from a web page.
The other issue with attachments is that not all of our listers are on broadband, many of them use mobile devices - which makes pictures in emails a real pain! - and many have limited internet access - pictures (and HTML email, as far as that goes), eats up their monthly allotment. I *know* the lack of broadband and size of downloads are an issue because I frequently see emails from customers complaining about how long it takes to download the program or who have problems downloading and have used up their monthly allotment! Now, in a perfect world, if everyone would resize their screen shots to something like under 200 KB, it probably would be fine. But, as we know, this isn't a perfect world and people don't know how to resize screen shots (or don't think of it) so they come through several MB in size.... Heck, we can't even get people to trim messages! So let's drop this thread. Anyone can set up a free Dropbox, Skydrive, Box or any other file sharing service account, upload a screen shot to a public folder and let those interested click on the picture. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron, > > > > Do you ever view web pages with images? I bet you do, as well as almost > everyone on this group. An image attached to an e-mail is no different, > from a security perspective, than any other image on the web. This scare > mongering about the dangers of image attachments is just plain wrong! > > > > As long as one has good anti-virus protection, there is no additional risk > to e-mail image attachments vis a vis anything else on the web. > > > > That being said, I’ve long given up on this policy changing on this group > and am still grateful for the (text only) help it provides. > > > > Paul Gray > > > > > > > > *From:* Ron Bernier [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* June-04-14 2:45 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] Clicking and/or right clicking is getting > "MORE" than annoying > > > > If Legacy ever allowed attachments to the list, I would be unsubscribed > immediately. You have other options/outlets for displaying images if you > are unable to clearly describe your issue. Not sure why you feel it is a > good idea to jeopardize other users computer safety to satisfy a need to > post attachments. > > > > Ron Bernier > > Woonsocket, RI > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
