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Re: Uploading Photos and Files to [email protected].
I will Chip in $5.00 Just let me know where to send it.
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Re: Upgrading the group, or... - Was: Re: Uploading Photos and Files to [email protected].
Joe, My experience has been that it doesn't hurt to have more than one moderator so long as the rules are fairly simple. We can cover for one another when unexpected events happen, among other things. Group owner needs to set the rules, such as they are, and let them be known. I'm willing if you need or want the help. I own a couple of groups, and moderate on a couple more, mostly metalworking, or metalworking related. I prefer to keep the discussion mostly metalworking related (or 3D printing, on a group where that's part of the focus). I try to keep the politics pretty light, though I'm not perfect at that myself, and mostly go for polite, and helpful. Ain't perfect at that, either, unfortunately, but I try. I am retired, 65yo, getting to be kind of fat. I'm not a machinist, but I am taking a class. Have been for over 5? years, very part-time. I have been doing metalworking of one sort and another for at least 55? years. My GI Joe had a steel sword, spear & arrow points on his weapons, among other things. I've done a bit of jewelry work, some armouring, including wearing it to fight with sword and shield, a tiny bit of amateur gunsmithing, and I've made and modified tools and toys, and such like. When it comes to wood, I'm more a wood butcher than anything else. A bit of computer & electronics work and play, and been some sort of maintenance mechanic for about a quarter of my adult life. High-performance fighter jets, automobiles, and industrial laundry equipment, among other things. I read a lot, and remember at least some of what I read, and my google-fu is fair to middling, so I can even find the info again sometimes.? Bill in OKC William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. LAZARUS LONG (Robert A. Heinlein)
On Friday, December 11, 2020, 05:39:39 PM CST, Joseph Melhorn <toyman@...> wrote:
Bill in OKC, I did have another individual step up and I¡¯ve elevated him to Moderator. His name is Mike and I¡¯ll let him chime in if he chooses to do so. Are you interested in becoming a Moderator? If so, let me know. In the meantime, I poked around a bit (dangerous thing to do, at least for me) and discovered that there was no restriction on the size of photos that could be uploaded. I took the liberty of setting a 1024 x 1024 size temporarily. We still need to address the elephant in the room, namely, do we need to poll the members (over 4,000) to see if enough donations can be collected to cover the $220.00 fee to upgrade the group or do we want it to remain ¡°free¡±? If the group wishes to remain ¡°free¡±, there¡¯s going to have to be some serious ¡°weeding¡± to do to the photos section, to reduce the size. I¡¯m open to suggestions or solutions. Regards, Joe Melhorn Sahuarita, AZ? 85629 ? |
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Re: Uploading Photos and Files to [email protected].
Likewise, Ralph. Several of the groups that you and I both belong to made the move to groups.io, and to premium groups where appropriate, because I and others (including you) suggested such, and volunteered funds to help make it happen. The Metal Shapers group I moved myself, since I was the owner. Funds to support the move originally came out of my pocket, at a time when I had some spare funds. Others who agreed with us that the move was a good idea ponied up their own funds to keep it going. I don't have much in the way of spare funds now, or I'd volunteer more of my money to do this. SWMBO is getting cataract surgery next week, and we've decided to get her the kind of lenses that correct her severe astigmatism, as well as replacing the damaged lenses. $3400 out of pocket for the lenses, plus whatever the insurance won't pay for the surgeries, and the drugs needed for pre- & post-operative care. She will need new glasses, after her recovery, too. This on top of over 5 grand in other medical and dental and vision care, and after we lost the commercial medical insurance that evaporated when my job did, in April. I'm about tapped out, right now, but this group is worth something to me, and I hope to several others, as well. I guess we'll find out in the next few days or weeks which route, or routes, the group decides it wants to take.? Another thing that might be worth some discussion would be a few more owners and/or moderators. The Metal Shapers group has several co-owners now, as I was a member of several groups that J. W. Early owned before his untimely death. They all eventually evaporated as there was no one who could keep them going after his passing.? Bill in OKC William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. LAZARUS LONG (Robert A. Heinlein)
On Friday, December 11, 2020, 04:08:58 PM CST, Ralph Hulslander <rhulslander@...> wrote:
I have been a member of numerous?groups that upgraded from the free groups with contributions?from group?members. It only takes a few of us to make the upgrade. So if an admin wants to do an upgrade let me know. Post your paypal account. Ralph On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 4:29 PM Bill in OKC too via <wmrmeyers=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Uploading Photos and Files to [email protected].
You're right, I did switch them. Which makes it a good way to reduce the size of the group a bit, after all.? Good catch! It will certainly be cheaper than upgrading the group to premium. Might be a challenge to do without losing useful info, though. I've been doing Yahoo & Groups.io groups for about a dozen years or so, now. Eliminating duplicate files and photos, particularly where they've been re-quoted, might be all that is needed. Or maybe not. Some folks are really good about avoiding reposting such things, and others not so well. I'm kinda spotty at that, myself, since I do a lot of my posting on a small-screen phone.? Bill in OKC William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. LAZARUS LONG (Robert A. Heinlein)
On Friday, December 11, 2020, 12:35:26 PM CST, John Vreede <vreededesign@...> wrote:
Hi Bill I just checked the files for one that could be deleted, but I figure you got the numbers backward 924MB in photos and 204MB in files so the major one is photos.. I agree the high res photos are best if you're trying to get detail. Seems that subgroups are the go. File existing photos in a subgroup so new photos , all the files and messages stay with the main group? - jv |
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Re: Uploading Photos and Files to [email protected].
If you're talking about the saw, that's great IF you have one. I don't, as mine was a Craigslist find. It fired up where I bought it, but tripped the inverter that was running it. I figured it was just too much current for a small inverter, and paid the man the $100 he wanted. It's a bit rusty, but I've got some other restoration project tools that are in worse shape, so I didn't sweat it. Got it home, and NOTHING happens!? I have downloaded several manuals from various sources, as they all seem to be close, but there is a bunch of info on this group from folks who have worked on several of the various brands. Looks like a valuable resource to me.? If you're talking about the group itself, it's a bit easier to RTFI. If you log into the groups.io homepage, on the top right there is a help button. You don't really need to be logged in to see it, but you might as well. It gives you a button for the owner's manual, user's manual, FAQ, and some other good info. The owner's manual can be downloaded as a PDF, or read as a one-page (long!) document.? Bill in OKC William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. LAZARUS LONG (Robert A. Heinlein)
On Friday, December 11, 2020, 03:01:04 PM CST, Ken Allio <alliok@...> wrote:
The owners manual has all the details.? ? |
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Pretty sure you're going to find that only works on premium groups. And even there it shares the total space of the group, which is 20gb. Next step up is enterprise groups, and those are $200/month and 1tb of storage. /static/pricing Bill in OKC William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.) A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. LAZARUS LONG (Robert A. Heinlein)
On Friday, December 11, 2020, 12:15:05 PM CST, Ken Allio <alliok@...> wrote:
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Bill in OKC too