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I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still
has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No
thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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Thank you, Bob, for your reply. That's an interesting perspective I
hadn't thought of. I tend to still like the Reply to Author method, because: 1. Google has my e-mail address, anyway. 2. For Excel topics, I don't really care if my e-mail content is pirated because it's just helping people, which I enjoy. 3. A few people have tried to help me set up a more secure way of e-mailing posters. I think I'm fairly smart on some Excel things, but I just "don't get" a lot of internet stuff, including that. I notice that you use gmail. From the g, I assumed that was a Google service (probably wrong!) Your posts are always informative and interesting. Thanks again. Best regards, James Bob Phillips wrote: But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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Bob,
Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a
lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm
trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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Google Beta Reply to Author
There are plenty of free web hosters for the sort of thing that you mention,
such as http://cjoint.com, http://flypicture.com/index.cfm?display=upload, etc. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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Google Beta Reply to Author
No, you are right, it is a gmail account, but I only use it to add to the
usenet service. I go in probably once a week and see if there is anything interesting, bin most of it. I never use it to start a conversation. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message ups.com... Thank you, Bob, for your reply. That's an interesting perspective I hadn't thought of. I tend to still like the Reply to Author method, because: 1. Google has my e-mail address, anyway. 2. For Excel topics, I don't really care if my e-mail content is pirated because it's just helping people, which I enjoy. 3. A few people have tried to help me set up a more secure way of e-mailing posters. I think I'm fairly smart on some Excel things, but I just "don't get" a lot of internet stuff, including that. I notice that you use gmail. From the g, I assumed that was a Google service (probably wrong!) Your posts are always informative and interesting. Thanks again. Best regards, James Bob Phillips wrote: But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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Peter,
As I said to Zone, I only use it to add to the usenet service. I go in probably once a week and see if there is anything interesting, bin most of it. I never use it to start a conversation. Bob "Peter T" <peter_t@discussions wrote in message ... Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) # |
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Bob, Now this is a revelation. I'll study these more. Might just be
the answer to my problem. Thanks! James Bob Phillips wrote: There are plenty of free web hosters for the sort of thing that you mention, such as http://cjoint.com, http://flypicture.com/index.cfm?display=upload, etc. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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Bob, I apologize for pestering you on this point. cjoint.com is in
French, so that's beyond me. flypicture.com looks like the ticket, and I was able to upload my Excel file to the site. What I don't understand is how my file is retrieved from the site. Could you please take the time to explain that part. Many thanks, James Bob Phillips wrote: There are plenty of free web hosters for the sort of thing that you mention, such as http://cjoint.com, http://flypicture.com/index.cfm?display=upload, etc. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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I'll do it on CJoint if I may Zone, although it is in French, you can ignore
it all. To upload, just click the Browse button on the initial screen, and then browse on your PC to find the file. Once located, click OK on the browse dialog and then click the 'Creer le lien Cjoint' button which will upload it and returns a screen with a url (on CJoint, it is labelled 'Le lien a ete cree'). Copy that URL and send it to your recipient. I have created one and the URL for you to try is http://cjoint.com/?kkbKHR56d7 The receiver gets the message with the URL, and just double-clicks the URL, or pastes it into the browser address bar, and that invokes the file download. Try uploading one, and get the URL and post it back. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message ups.com... Bob, I apologize for pestering you on this point. cjoint.com is in French, so that's beyond me. flypicture.com looks like the ticket, and I was able to upload my Excel file to the site. What I don't understand is how my file is retrieved from the site. Could you please take the time to explain that part. Many thanks, James Bob Phillips wrote: There are plenty of free web hosters for the sort of thing that you mention, such as http://cjoint.com, http://flypicture.com/index.cfm?display=upload, etc. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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There is also http://savefile.com/ which Max uses. haven't used it myself,
but if I understand it correctly, you can use it as a personal file store. The others tend to delete the files after 30 days or so, Savefile seems to keep them (but check the terms). -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message ups.com... Bob, I apologize for pestering you on this point. cjoint.com is in French, so that's beyond me. flypicture.com looks like the ticket, and I was able to upload my Excel file to the site. What I don't understand is how my file is retrieved from the site. Could you please take the time to explain that part. Many thanks, James Bob Phillips wrote: There are plenty of free web hosters for the sort of thing that you mention, such as http://cjoint.com, http://flypicture.com/index.cfm?display=upload, etc. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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From:
http://www.savefile.com/faq.php When will my file be deleted? - All files with no downloads for 30 days will be deleted. Please note that this limit can be lowered to 25 days in extreme cases, but only in a short period of time. Max actually downloads his (important files) every so often so they don't age off. (I was curious and asked him.) Bob Phillips wrote: There is also http://savefile.com/ which Max uses. haven't used it myself, but if I understand it correctly, you can use it as a personal file store. The others tend to delete the files after 30 days or so, Savefile seems to keep them (but check the terms). -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message ups.com... Bob, I apologize for pestering you on this point. cjoint.com is in French, so that's beyond me. flypicture.com looks like the ticket, and I was able to upload my Excel file to the site. What I don't understand is how my file is retrieved from the site. Could you please take the time to explain that part. Many thanks, James Bob Phillips wrote: There are plenty of free web hosters for the sort of thing that you mention, such as http://cjoint.com, http://flypicture.com/index.cfm?display=upload, etc. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James -- Dave Peterson |
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Bob, Hooray! Problem solved. I used savefile.com. The little file is
hardly earth-shattering, but I think it will be useful to the poster I created it for. http://savefile.com/files/148073 if you're interested. Many thanks and regards, James Bob Phillips wrote: There is also http://savefile.com/ which Max uses. haven't used it myself, but if I understand it correctly, you can use it as a personal file store. The others tend to delete the files after 30 days or so, Savefile seems to keep them (but check the terms). -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message ups.com... Bob, I apologize for pestering you on this point. cjoint.com is in French, so that's beyond me. flypicture.com looks like the ticket, and I was able to upload my Excel file to the site. What I don't understand is how my file is retrieved from the site. Could you please take the time to explain that part. Many thanks, James Bob Phillips wrote: There are plenty of free web hosters for the sort of thing that you mention, such as http://cjoint.com, http://flypicture.com/index.cfm?display=upload, etc. -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... Charles, Another interesting strategy. My main problem is if I'm trying to help someone and they need a userform solution, it's almost impossible to explain how to layout and hook up a user form in the newsgroup. Wouldn't it be great if Google had a way to pass Excel files anonymously? Then I could just download the file to Google and tell the person I'm trying to help the name of the file and they could go to the Google resource and download it. Guess that is asking for the moon and stars. Google does seem to be trying to address the problem. Hopefully they'll keep working on it. Regards, James Charles Chickering wrote: James, I post an old yahoo address when I need to see a file. I have notice a lot more spam being sent to the bulk folder since then... Oh well, I guess that's what spam filters are for. -- Charles Chickering "A good example is twice the value of good advice." "Peter T" wrote: Bob, Like me you have a gmail account which means Google has a record of all your exchanges, with which analyse and target you with [sic] relevant advertising. Zone, From time to time I post my email address in thinly disguised form. AFAIK to date no trawler has scooped it up. Regards, Peter T "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... But Google will have it, and a record of who you emailed, what you said. No thanks! -- HTH Bob Phillips (replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct) "Zone" wrote in message oups.com... I've been looking into the Google Beta version for Groups. It still has a few warts, but Reply to Author seems to be a very nice feature, since it allows a poster to send me his/her e-mail address for passing files without either of us posting our address in the newsgroup. Satisfies a real need, it seems to me. They will be able to see my e-mail address on their sent mail, but at least we don't have to post our addresses in the ng to pass files. I can always just delete their e-mail if necessary. I would prefer to explictly allow the poster to e-mail me, but ng security is weak anyway, so this is an improvement. Any comments? James |
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