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Re: loading pdf files

 

Pam,

as soon as the file is loaded it says it can't be read.
it does show up and that is what comes up.

?It would be interesting to know just what said the file can't be read. There are multiple possibilities (the site, your browser, a PDF plug-in for your browser, your operating system...)? It may be that a screen shot would be worth more than a thousand words here.

It is possible that somehow your files aren't being marked as PDF content when uploaded to Groups.io. In the Files list, what is the icon to the left of the file name? It should be a page with PDF inside. If it has a ? inside that's a big clue to the problem. Then it becomes a question of why Groups.io did not think the file was actually PDF.

Also, does the file name end with ".pdf"? If not you might try renaming the file before upload so that it does.
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I can read the pdf that was uploaded to the files section here.?

?That's interesting. And disproves most ideas about issues with your browser configuration. Do you mean that clicking on the file name in GMF's Files section causes your browser to open the file directly in your browsing tab or window? or does your browser prompt you to choose an app to open the file or save it?

For me, also on Windows 10, both Firefox and Edge open the pdf in the browser.
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I'm not sure what you mean about a pdf configured for the browser. I have adobe dc on my system.

?Current browsers usually include PDF display in browser. But they can be configured to run a browser extension, or to request that you open the file with an app or save it instead.? The in-browser display of PDF files in Edge and current versions of Firefox do not use Reader DC or other application software to show you the PDF file.

?Shal
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Re: Just Curious - Receiving your own posts in Gmail

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Yes that¡¯s Xbox is on by default, however, if you¡¯re wanting to receive postings from other mailing list, that are not associated with this website, if you put the word recent before the email address in your email client, that will also help you receive your own postings.

Sent?from my iPhone

On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:

Donald,

I see you have a Gmail account, and there is a setting in Gmail that
allows you to receive copies of what you send out.

?I keep reading this rumor, but so far no one has ever managed to show me a Gmail setting or use case that actually lets me see my own messages returned.

I am not sure where that setting is, but I set mine a long time ago to
allow me to receive copies of what I send out.

?There is the My Posts setting in the ?Preferences page of your account. When checked it implements a work-around to Gmail's "feature" - replaces the Message ID of messages you posted when they are addressed back to you. That makes it no longer "the same message" in Gmail's algorithms.

But IIRC that checkbox is on by default, so that shouldn't be an issue for people who've never seen it.

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Re: Just Curious - Receiving your own posts in Gmail

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I see my originals but I get my email through my outlook and I have my settings to show all original messages.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Shal Farley
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 7:19 PM
To: GMF <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GMF] Just Curious

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Donald,

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I see you have a Gmail account, and there is a setting in Gmail that
allows you to receive copies of what you send out.

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?I keep reading this rumor, but so far no one has ever managed to show me a Gmail setting or use case that actually lets me see my own messages returned.

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I am not sure where that setting is, but I set mine a long time ago to
allow me to receive copies of what I send out.

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?There is the My Posts setting in the ?Preferences page of your Groups.io account. When checked it implements a work-around to Gmail's "feature" - replaces the Message ID of messages you posted when they are addressed back to you. That makes it no longer "the same message" in Gmail's algorithms.

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But IIRC that checkbox is on by default, so that shouldn't be an issue for people who've never seen it.

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Just Curious - Receiving your own posts in Gmail

 

Donald,

I see you have a Gmail account, and there is a setting in Gmail that
allows you to receive copies of what you send out.

?I keep reading this rumor, but so far no one has ever managed to show me a Gmail setting or use case that actually lets me see my own messages returned.

I am not sure where that setting is, but I set mine a long time ago to
allow me to receive copies of what I send out.

?There is the My Posts setting in the ?Preferences page of your Groups.io account. When checked it implements a work-around to Gmail's "feature" - replaces the Message ID of messages you posted when they are addressed back to you. That makes it no longer "the same message" in Gmail's algorithms.

But IIRC that checkbox is on by default, so that shouldn't be an issue for people who've never seen it.

?Shal
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Re: New to Groups IO

 

Better to choose daily summary. Then one email has it all.


Re: Answering Messages In Digest Mode With the Braille Note 4

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Thanks much.

I appreciate this.

I seriously do.

Sorry if I sounded like a puling whining brat a while ago.

I let a separate situation bleed into this.

My apologies.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Shal Farley
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 6:18 PM
To: GMF <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GMF] Answering Messages In Digest Mode With the Braille Note 4

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Patty

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?Your co-list member wrote:?

The problem is that for some reason, on my BrailleNote Touch running Android 4, I'm not finding the edit field in which to write my message.

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?Mobile devices are already finicky enough, I can scarcely imagine what it is like ?dealing with it in Braille. Anyway, assuming that she's clicked through to the group's web site (and is not looking for an edit field in the summary email itself), and found a reply link for the appropriate message, not being able to then find a field like the edit box sounds like an issue with how the site page is presented on that device.

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That could be a question of user education, or it could be that the HTML of the site could be improved to make it work better for such devices. Mark has worked with several people to get screen-readers to work better, and this may be a similar situation. I'd suggest having the member write to [email protected] directly about it.

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Re: loading pdf files

 

as soon as the file is loaded it says it can't be read.
it does show up and that is what comes up.
I can read the pdf that was uploaded to the files section here.?
I am using edge on windows 10. I have tried using files that were made into pdf from both a program that prints them and from Microsoft print to pdf.
I'm not sure what you mean about a pdf configured for the browser. I have adobe dc on my system.


Re: Answering Messages In Digest Mode With the Braille Note 4

 

Patty
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?Your co-list member wrote:?
The problem is that for some reason, on my BrailleNote Touch running Android 4, I'm not finding the edit field in which to write my message.
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?Mobile devices are already finicky enough, I can scarcely imagine what it is like ?dealing with it in Braille. Anyway, assuming that she's clicked through to the group's web site (and is not looking for an edit field in the summary email itself), and found a reply link for the appropriate message, not being able to then find a field like the edit box sounds like an issue with how the site page is presented on that device.
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That could be a question of user education, or it could be that the HTML of the site could be improved to make it work better for such devices. Mark has worked with several people to get screen-readers to work better, and this may be a similar situation. I'd suggest having the member write to [email protected] directly about it.
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Re: Answering Messages In Digest Mode With the Braille Note 4

Patty Fletcher
 

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Thanks very much I¡¯ll pass this along.

I very much appreciate it.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Duane
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 4:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Answering Messages In Digest Mode With the Braille Note 4

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On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 08:25 am, Patty Fletcher wrote:

I'm subscribed in daily summary mode

That may be the problem.? If it were one of the digest formats, there should be links for each message to make a reply.

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Re: User deleting own post

 

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>> I am not a lawyer.
>> This is not legal advice.
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> I think this says it all.
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Bruce, I'm guessing you are not a legal expert either. Toki's post was written based on study and personal?experience?and should?be written off only after doing your own research. You may find there are a great many things that are understood by people other than lawyers. And there are many people who are misled by other people who question such advice because they just want things their own way. Lawyers make money from people like that.
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It seems that some people here?are dissatisfied with some of the responses that are being posted. If you are such a person and have a dog in this fight, I would suggest you contact a good copyright lawyer and discuss the facts. I personally believe there are ways to deal with such a situation without taking away a member's control of their posts.
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Re: User deleting own post

 

Remember too that (under U.S. law) copyright enforcement is
primarily about the commercial value of the work. If the work
has no commercial value then there are no damages to be
recovered in an infringement suit (statutory damages are only
available if you've promptly registered the work on publication).
Shal, you're mixing up enforcement and penalties. Enforcement is about stopping the violation of a copyright. Penalties are typically assessed based on value. But a person with enough money or will to afford a lawyer can make an issue of such use and require removal, even if no monetary damages are assessed. There are many internet forums that are very concerned about such issues. Admitted, the written word is the most difficult to prove originality, but on a group that insists on not removing anything, that might not be so difficult. When one mixes in the possibility of paid premium groups where the content arguably *is* the product, it might get messier. I can see why Mark has continued to let posters retain control of their content, since he has the most to lose.

By the way, registration is no longer required for most copyright issues as long as one can prove they are the original source. Photos are the best example of this; copyright begins at the creation and that image need not be registered nor published. As I noted before, proving originality of the written word is more problematic, but in such a situation, a group's stated rules requiring that users give up control of their content looks bad.

Yes, I tend to take a very conservative viewpoint of copyright law. I have on a couple occasions knowingly violated it myself, although I made every effort to contact the source and credit them even though they never responded.

I still believe the safest way to deal with the situation in question is to quote the original poster in a reply where one is protected by fair use. This might also be a good way to deal with misinformation, since groups.io keeps everything together in threads. I could also see adding a moderator note to suc a post noting it's controversial nature and directing the reader to a rebuttal.

For more information see for a start.

Dano


Re: Just Curious

 

Patty . . .

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 16:40:16 -0400, "Patty Fletcher"
<patty.volunteer1@...> wrote:

So I'll just say that I sent this to see if I'd get a response.
I've seen my messages just did not know if the list was seeing them.
Thanks for answering.
I'm beginning to think I might have stumbled into a place maybe I don't
belong.
Shal noted some specific message numbers that you can check against to
make sure all of your messages got through.

I don't know that anyone would qualify as not belonging here, but if
you took my post as being an attack, I can assure you that it wasn't.
I was just trying to reason out why we wouldn't know about what we
wouldn't see. But if you check the messages at the group site you can
see if all of yours went through. I rarely visit the group site and do
all my posts and replies by email. But if I had suspicions about my
posts not making it to the group, I would try that first to see if I
can find my recent posts there.

I see you have a Gmail account, and there is a setting in Gmail that
allows you to receive copies of what you send out. Otherwise, unless
something has changed since the last time I checked, if Gmail sees an
incoming message that matches what you sent out, it doesn't put it in
your inbox and ignores it instead. The assumption is that we don't
want to see what we already knew we wrote. However, that isn't how
most of us would like it to be, and in the case of online forums where
you receive email copies of your posts made by email, it can make one
wonder if our posts are indeed being seen by others.

I am not sure where that setting is, but I set mine a long time ago to
allow me to receive copies of what I send out. To me, it makes more
sense for me to delete those if I wish instead of an email service
making that decision for me.

Donald


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Re: Answering Messages In Digest Mode With the Braille Note 4

 

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 08:25 am, Patty Fletcher quoted this from a subscriber:
I'm sure it's a lot easier on my computer, but at times I would like to be able to do this on my BrailleNote Touch as well, so this is really frustrating. If any of you know of a way I can reply to such messages with my email program, you can email me at the address below.
I suspect the number of braille users here is limited, much less those who might be using the same device as your subscriber.

When posing questions here, please consider the possibility that situations may be encountered that we simply may be unable to answer.

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Re: User deleting own post

 

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 02:15 pm, toki wrote:
I am not a lawyer.
This is not legal advice.
I think this says it all.?

Bruce?
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Re: User deleting own post

 

On 06/07/18 06:00 PM, Sharon Villines via Groups.Io wrote:

I don¡¯t think email falls under ¡°creation¡± but under letters. And letters do belong to the person to whom they are written aren¡¯t they?
The physical letter _usually_ (^1) belongs to the recipient.
The copyright belongs to the author of the letter.

Having said that, the question of a person replying to such a post and quoting part of the material originally posted would seem to fall into a gray area.
In the US, that probably falls under "Fair Use".

European law, in general, does not recognize "Fair Use". However, such
quotation was usually regarded as trivial, and, as a practical matter,
unenforceable. However, the EU is in the middle of making major changes
to copyright law. Whilst I don't think that the net result will be as
dire as the critics claim, it isn't as minimal in its impact, as the
advocates claim. If the critics are right, then such quoting is legal
only if the author consents to the quotation, and the appropriate
royalty payments have been made. One horror case scenario claims that
blanket waivers are unacceptable, and each contract has to be
individually negotiated. I don't think the European parliamentarians are
quite that stupid. OTOH these are government bureaucrats working in
conjunction with politicians, so who knows.

Is such quotation allowed under the shared commons allowances as a
reasonable use for educational discussions and common discourse?

That depends upon the precise wording of all licenses that:
* the content is distributed under;
* that the distributed has, related to distribution of said content;
* The law in the legal jurisdiction of the person who is claiming
copyright infringement;

Much as I'd like to think that it is never an issue, some people have
far more money than brains, and are perfectly willing to disregard the
advice of their solicitor, to do the money-wasting thing.

Sometimes, the lawsuit is filed, not for financial gain, but because the
plaintiff is deliberately seeking The Streisand Effect.

I haven¡¯t checked the current version but the law used to say "500 words or less" for educational, etc, purposes, and without the intention of replacing the original.
US copyright law doesn't specify a minimum, in terms of either words, or
percentage of work.

^1: The exceptions are usually due to signing NDAs, or similar contracts.

I am not a lawyer.
This is not legal advice.

jonathon


Re: Just Curious

Patty Fletcher
 

Well I made an attempt to answer this privately but see no reply to sender
link here.
So I'll just say that I sent this to see if I'd get a response.
I've seen my messages just did not know if the list was seeing them.
Thanks for answering.
I'm beginning to think I might have stumbled into a place maybe I don't
belong.
Will just read a while and maybe sooner or later someone else will ask a
similar question to mine and be answered.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf
Of Donald Hellen
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 4:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] Just Curious

Patty . . .

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:35:49 -0400, "Patty Fletcher"
<patty.volunteer1@...> wrote:

I'm just curious are you all receiving my messages?

I've posed a couple questions to this list and other than someone sending
me the help links which I'd read already and felt I still needed more help
with and one person writing me privately on an unrelated matter have
received no answers what so ever.

That's a question that would be difficult to answer. If we aren't getting
all of your messages, I can't think of a way for us to know that you've sent
others that we haven't received. We simply would have no reason to suspect
there were missing messages.

But the fact that you got some private answers tells me your messages were
getting through.

Donald


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Re: Answering Messages In Digest Mode With the Braille Note 4

 

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 08:25 am, Patty Fletcher wrote:
I'm subscribed in daily summary mode
That may be the problem.? If it were one of the digest formats, there should be links for each message to make a reply.

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Re: Just Curious

 

Patty
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I¡¯m just curious are you all receiving my messages?


?#s 9878, 9884, 9885, 9921, 9926, 9963, 9986
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?...received no answers what so ever.


?#s ?9981, 9986, 9988

But no, apparently no one has replied about the Braille Note 4.

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Re: Just Curious

 

Patty . . .

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:35:49 -0400, "Patty Fletcher"
<patty.volunteer1@...> wrote:

I¡¯m just curious are you all receiving my messages?

±õ¡¯±¹±ð posed a couple questions to this list and other than someone sending me the help links which I¡¯d read already and felt I still needed more help with and one person writing me privately on an unrelated matter have received no answers what so ever.
That's a question that would be difficult to answer. If we aren't
getting all of your messages, I can't think of a way for us to know
that you've sent others that we haven't received. We simply would have
no reason to suspect there were missing messages.

But the fact that you got some private answers tells me your messages
were getting through.

Donald


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Re: Curious problem logging in

 

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 11:20 am, pamela wolf wrote:
I have to reset my password every single time too.
Actually, this only happened for me today. I set up a new password and hopefully it was just a one-time thing...