Need help with Gmail

Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
a site. Thanks for your help

vid

vid wrote:

> Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
> someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
> a site. Thanks for your help

What "site"? Gmail is a web-based email client, not a file-sharing
application or a web browser

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Gordon

On 2006-10-25, Gordon <> wrote:
> vid wrote:
>
>> Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
>> someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
>> a site. Thanks for your help
>
> What "site"? Gmail is a web-based email client, not a file-sharing
> application or a web browser

I think I can see a pattern emerging. People sign up for "Gmail", thus
getting a "Google account", and start to wander about Google. They
discover "Google Groups" and assume that it is a 'feature' of "Gmail"
(which it is not). Within "Google Groups" they inevitably find usenet
newsgroups, such as this one, and immediately leap to the horribly wrong
conclusion that these newsgroups are a Google service (which they are not)
which they are accessing through their "Gmail" account (which they are
not).

This particular newbie seems to know that there are 'binary newsgroups'
out there somewhere (although doesn't know exactly what they are), and
thinks that it should be possible to get to them using "Google Groups" (it
is not possible). Mistaking "Gmail" for "Google Groups" just adds another
twist to the spiral of misinformation and confusion Google are weaving.

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On 2006-10-25, vid <> wrote:
> Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
> someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
> a site. Thanks for your help

Oh dear. Here we go again.

Google Groups is not usenet. Google Groups is a combination of

1) A searchable archive of most of the articles posted into most
usenet newsgroups in the last 20 years or so, purchased by Google
from 'DejaNews' who started it.

2) A badly designed web forum interface to allow reading and posting
in those newsgroups.

3) Google's own proprietary web forums, which are not part of usenet.
For reasons of their own, Google do not make the distinction
between their own web forums and the real newsgroups very clear.

1) is a useful service. 2) and 3) are means of getting people to look at
and occasionally click on the advertisements that Google display, and
which earn them their money.

There is no access to 'binary newsgroups' via "Google Groups"; for that
you will have to get an account with a news-server that carries binary
newsgroups, and set up a suitable 'newsreader' program on your computer so
that you can access those binary newsgroups.

"Gmail", as Gordon has pointed out, is a web-mail service; nothing at all
to do with usenet newsgroups, binary or otherwise.

Newcomers to newsgroups should start here

<http://computer.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup.htm>

and here

<http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/>, the Official Home Page of the
newsgroup called news.newusers.questions.

If you are interested in binary newsgroups, I suggest that you look at the
newsgroup called news.software.readers (you can use "Google Groups" to do
that, although that group, like this one, has nothing at all to do with
Google). You might also find this website useful
<http://www.binaries4all.com/>.

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Gordon wrote:
> vid wrote:
>
> > Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
> > someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
> > a site. Thanks for your help
>
> What "site"? Gmail is a web-based email client, not a file-sharing
> application or a web browser
>
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> to email me invalidate the invalid!

Gordon is right


To save pictures and/or files from websites it's as simple as a right
click then select save.

I gotta feeling that the OP is saying he doesnt understand his email
client and to please post responses here although I could be completely
wrong on that account.

Wintr

vid wrote:

> just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
> someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
> a site.

You didn't ask your question very well. Suppose your question were,
"When I use my gmail to read mail, I can't see enclosed graphics and I
can't open links."

- if someone sends you an html mail whose graphic is on a webpage, that
graphic is not autodisplayed, but instead gmail gives you the /option/
of displaying the graphic or of displaying all future such graphics from
that sender

// Images are not displayed. - Display images below - Always display
images from xxxx.dom //

- if someone sends you a plaintext mail with attached graphics, that
graphic is not autodisplayed in full, but instead gmail shows you a
thumbnail view of the attached graphic and several options for handling
the attachments, view all, download all, view one, download one, etc

- link viewing problems, many, depending on the browser or its config:

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/...778&topic=1523 I
can't open links: I'm using Mozilla or Firefox but do not have Internet
security or pop-up blocking software installed.

<several others>

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/...779&topic=1523 I
can't open links: None of the other suggestions solutions applied to me.

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On 24 Oct 2006 23:55:48 -0700, "vid" <> wrote:

>Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
>someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
>a site. Thanks for your help

What is "r posted"?

Barry
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Barry OGrady wrote:
> On 24 Oct 2006 23:55:48 -0700, "vid" <> wrote:
>
>>Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
>>someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
>>a site. Thanks for your help
>
> What is "r posted"?

Looks like retardospeak for "are posted".


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Whiskers wrote:

> On 2006-10-25, Gordon <> wrote:
>> vid wrote:
>>
>>> Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
>>> someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
>>> a site. Thanks for your help
>>
>> What "site"? Gmail is a web-based email client, not a file-sharing
>> application or a web browser
>
> I think I can see a pattern emerging. People sign up for "Gmail", thus
> getting a "Google account", and start to wander about Google. They
> discover "Google Groups" and assume that it is a 'feature' of "Gmail"
> (which it is not). Within "Google Groups" they inevitably find usenet
> newsgroups, such as this one, and immediately leap to the horribly wrong
> conclusion that these newsgroups are a Google service (which they are not)
> which they are accessing through their "Gmail" account (which they are
> not).
>
> This particular newbie seems to know that there are 'binary newsgroups'
> out there somewhere (although doesn't know exactly what they are), and
> thinks that it should be possible to get to them using "Google Groups"
> (it
> is not possible). Mistaking "Gmail" for "Google Groups" just adds another
> twist to the spiral of misinformation and confusion Google are weaving.
>

Wow! That ought to be the basis for a thesis on Usenet.....

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Gordon

On 2006-10-26, Gordon <> wrote:
> Whiskers wrote:
>
>> On 2006-10-25, Gordon <> wrote:
>>> vid wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good Evening Everyone - just got gmail and am unfamiliar with it. Can
>>>> someone please explain how to download files and pics that r posted on
>>>> a site. Thanks for your help
>>>
>>> What "site"? Gmail is a web-based email client, not a file-sharing
>>> application or a web browser
>>
>> I think I can see a pattern emerging. People sign up for "Gmail", thus
>> getting a "Google account", and start to wander about Google. They
>> discover "Google Groups" and assume that it is a 'feature' of "Gmail"
>> (which it is not). Within "Google Groups" they inevitably find usenet
>> newsgroups, such as this one, and immediately leap to the horribly wrong
>> conclusion that these newsgroups are a Google service (which they are not)
>> which they are accessing through their "Gmail" account (which they are
>> not).
>>
>> This particular newbie seems to know that there are 'binary newsgroups'
>> out there somewhere (although doesn't know exactly what they are), and
>> thinks that it should be possible to get to them using "Google Groups"
>> (it
>> is not possible). Mistaking "Gmail" for "Google Groups" just adds another
>> twist to the spiral of misinformation and confusion Google are weaving.
>
> Wow! That ought to be the basis for a thesis on Usenet.....

Or on Google.

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