You're not the real Gandalf! The real Gandalf would have had the
answer, and passed it to me, even before Doc did!
Tina
Gandalf wrote:
> Doc wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:47:08 -0600, "Frankenteaser"
> > <Teaser@optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> >> "Tina" <tinatart69@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1154688833.435454.77090@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> >>> OK, so maybe I'm a bimbo... but I'm reading messages that refer to
> >>> pictures, and I don't see the pictures and can't find them! Where are
> >>> the pictures!?
> >>>
> >>> Tina
> >> Depends.
> >> If you are clicking on an RE: post, that is a text reply
> >> Perhaps your ISP or newsreader does not permit binaries in a non-binary
> >> group
> >> try getting ALT.BINARIES.PICTURES.PANTYHOSE
> >
> > That won't work for Tina either.
> >
> > Tina, I can see from your headers that you are accessing the group
> > through "google" groups. That won't work to bring you the photos..
> >
> > This part of the internet is called "usenet" (newsgroups) and it's
> > best to access usenet directly rather than indirectly through the
> > world wide web. (although there are a couple sites, one I think is
> > guba.com, that do a better job of letting people actually see the
> > pictures).
> >
> > Depending on your internet service provider, you may already have
> > access to a newsgroup server although they did not tell you about it.
> > (They tend to no longer advertise the best hidden secret of the 'net).
> > If you can get to your ISP's help file and get the name of their
> > newsgroup server, you can configure Outlook to show the newsgroups and
> > bring in some (not all) of the pictures.
> >
> > That could be a first step. But there is specialized software that is
> > waaaaaay better than Outlook to do this job that brings you everything
> > better. (XNews is free, Agent is one that I use). Also your ISP may
> > not have newsgroups or give the crummiest bare bones service
> > available. People subscribe to premium news servers and then they use
> > that software and everything is totally available then. The biggest
> > and most popular news servers are EasyNews and Giganews. Perhaps
> > behind those big ones are usenetserver.com and teranews. There are
> > maybe 30 others of varying quality and price.
> >
> > You can google some of these subjects and get up to speed fairly quick
> > and discover another dimension of the net. People here could also help
> > answer questions or give suggestions if you needed that. - Doc
>
> Gee Doc...
>
> It would've been *way* shorter to simply have said,
> "What pictures?"
>
> ;-)
>
> -Gandalf
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