Hi,
I have strong feelings on this, I posted on the original threads. To summarize:
We don't actually send the image. We only send a reference to it.
There are a lot of reasons for this -- legal, ethical, and technical.
The "anything goes" idea was an add on, the main program is set up to send from a list of images in your gallery. It's just that the way the program functions, the image can be *any* URL.
By sending a reference, we are not liable for the content of the image -- it's not on our servers, we only have a link to it. We do not "send" any file that may contain a virus, contains adult or nasty content, etc. We only send a notice that someone has sent a message to you, and you can pick it up -- the *choice* is yours.
Our program wraps this image in some text, and formatting (you can even pick the format of the card, that's a feature that's coming -- ie: vertical, horizontal, layout, etc).
What I *would* like to do is check to make sure that a remote file is *really* an image file, before displaying the card, but that requires some internal routines that may or may not be on people's systems. If I can find some perl modules to check for jpg, gif, png, bmp, etc, it would be a good thing to add (actually, you really only need to check the extension, and then the first few hundred bytes of the file for a reasonable check).
We do not send 1000's of megs of data to your email box you have to download when you *thought* you were doing a quick mail scan -- only a short message of 1 or 2 k in length, with a pick up URL.
We dont send attached sound files, or other mixed media that a person may not have the plugin for, or may crash their system at a critical time.
Gossamer Mail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, etc all will let you send a message with attachments :)
We are sending postcards.
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
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Please leave a PM here.
I have strong feelings on this, I posted on the original threads. To summarize:
We don't actually send the image. We only send a reference to it.
There are a lot of reasons for this -- legal, ethical, and technical.
The "anything goes" idea was an add on, the main program is set up to send from a list of images in your gallery. It's just that the way the program functions, the image can be *any* URL.
By sending a reference, we are not liable for the content of the image -- it's not on our servers, we only have a link to it. We do not "send" any file that may contain a virus, contains adult or nasty content, etc. We only send a notice that someone has sent a message to you, and you can pick it up -- the *choice* is yours.
Our program wraps this image in some text, and formatting (you can even pick the format of the card, that's a feature that's coming -- ie: vertical, horizontal, layout, etc).
What I *would* like to do is check to make sure that a remote file is *really* an image file, before displaying the card, but that requires some internal routines that may or may not be on people's systems. If I can find some perl modules to check for jpg, gif, png, bmp, etc, it would be a good thing to add (actually, you really only need to check the extension, and then the first few hundred bytes of the file for a reasonable check).
We do not send 1000's of megs of data to your email box you have to download when you *thought* you were doing a quick mail scan -- only a short message of 1 or 2 k in length, with a pick up URL.
We dont send attached sound files, or other mixed media that a person may not have the plugin for, or may crash their system at a critical time.
Gossamer Mail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, etc all will let you send a message with attachments :)
We are sending postcards.
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
The best way to contact me is to NOT use Email.
Please leave a PM here.
