On 2010-08-31 8:28 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hey Ed: I seem to receive about 1/2 the attachments that people send
as either red X's or blank documents. Is this due to some sort of
screening that Yahoo does, or is it some other problem?
Lynn
Lynn,
Some pictures come through inline, right inside the message.
Others, sent as attachments, are pulled out of the message and stored on
Yahoo. For these, there's supposed to be a link in the message - click
on the link and the attachment comes up in your web browser (usually) or
sometimes in another program.
The last two sent by Ed Benguiat did not come through properly. The
first, which should have shown "external my plane plug.jpg" instead came
through as (I think) an image containing just those words but no
picture. The last attempt he tried to send came through as a word
document which was blank except for the words in the center of the page
saying, "QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this
picture." We generally don't want any zip or otherwise compressed or
processed files sent as attachments these days. Even dial-up is fast
enough to handle most photos and files uncompressed.
When photos are sent as attachments, Yahoo seems to reprocess them to a
good web-display size so they don't make excessively large download
files. If someone includes a picture inline, I'd appreciate it if
they'd resize it in a photo editing program to be maybe 10 inches in the
largest dimension, 72 dpi and save as .jpg quality level around 3, 2 or
1. This makes the files sizes easy to handle for everyone.
The picture Beach sent last evening, showing the baffles around the oil
tank, came through in-line in his message (though I had to scroll down
to see them).
I'll watch what's going on to see if there are systemic problems.
Ed
