September 2004 News
September 11 2004
Hello,
I have recently built a web site at http://www.ogdenpoint.ca
From that site you can read some things about the Ogden Point area which is where I live.
You can follow links to my personal home page: http://www.ronmclean.bc.ca to
my PhotoSite which was originally at http://ip-ronaldmclean.hs2go.netand had to be moved to http://www.photoserver.dynu.com when the DNS sever at hs2go.net was no longer in service.
My "Posty" (card) site is at http://welcome.ogdenpoint.ca
If you need a hug today, you can click for A BIG HUG
You can view my photo collection from the links on my home page as the Photosite is not very user friendly. It hosts all the pictures for the other two and is an integral part of the system in that way.
The Card Site will likely be the area of most interest to people.
For People who have never created an E-Card before and for people using dial up and other slow internet connections there are clickable links on the welcome screens that lead to special pages for first time users and those of you using slower connections.
I created it to allow more people to enjoy and share some of my better pictures. The pictures are currently in one big long series and are just numbered in the order they were taken. My next project will be building separate pages for various locations pictures were taken and/or themes like wildlife and sunsets.. There will be pages (for sure) from Ogden Point (probably a separate "Ogden Point Sunsets" page), Beacon Hill Park, Butchart Gardens, Victoria BC, Vancouver BC, Assinniboine Park (Winnipeg), Manitoba in general, and Nova Scotia (I have lots of pictures from those places.). The pages are stored on one web space at Telus (the BC telephone company) and the pictures are stored on a server computer in my living room. Building and editing those pages will take some time. I will post each page as I get it ready.
When you send a "POSTY" from the card site, a notice is sent to the recipient notifying them the card has been created. The card is not actually sent at that time. The card is stored at the card service pickup site and they must retrieve it within 3 weeks to see it. They then view it in their browser so that it never actually downloads to their computer (unless they "Save it as a Web Page").
When the recipient opens the actual card it generates an email notice back to you saying they have picked it up. You can look at the original message and/or do with the email as you wish.
Once the recipient (or you) has viewed the card, they can delete the e-mail notice and the card will self destruct at the appointed time with no further action necessary.
This system allows people to send messages with pictures through firewalls and Spam filters that might block graphic attachments (like Hotmail, AOL and most business systems do) It also allows you to send cards with pictures (and sound) in much smaller messages that won't overload small mailboxes like Hotmail or Yahoo because the card is not actually sent, only the pickup notification is sent.
The site is a "Pro Posty Site" so it is not supported by the nuisance pop up ads, banner ads, and spyware that are the normal part of the advertising supported "Free " sites. I have created the various pages and mail messages myself and the only links to "mypostcards.com" (on whose server the posties are stored for pickup) are some safe links that they require as part of their service.
The process of creating and viewing the Posties is one that does not actually cause the posties to enter your computer in the same way as email. The email messages related to sending and pickup of the posties are an automated process from the service's system, not from an individual computer. That means the messages can't become infected and carry viruses like normal email.
The service is unlimited so you may send as many cards as you want, and if you have friends who would enjoy using the cards, please feel free to tell them about it. You can either forward a copy of this page by email or
Send A Card From Ogden Point
to let them know about it.
If you do forward any email I do ask that you do so responsibly to avoid spam harvesters by backspacing through all old addresses that may be in the body of the message and by forwarding the message to one person at a time or to yourself with the other recipients as BCC's (Blind Copies -- so they don't see each other's addresses and especially so Viruses, Worms, and Spam Harvesters can't find them.)
(If that confuses you send me an email and I'll try to say it in more user friendly terms.)
...ron...
Hello,
I have recently built a web site at http://www.ogdenpoint.ca
From that site you can read some things about the Ogden Point area which is where I live.
You can follow links to my personal home page: http://www.ronmclean.bc.ca to
my PhotoSite which was originally at http://ip-ronaldmclean.hs2go.netand had to be moved to http://www.photoserver.dynu.com when the DNS sever at hs2go.net was no longer in service.
My "Posty" (card) site is at http://welcome.ogdenpoint.ca
If you need a hug today, you can click for A BIG HUG
You can view my photo collection from the links on my home page as the Photosite is not very user friendly. It hosts all the pictures for the other two and is an integral part of the system in that way.
The Card Site will likely be the area of most interest to people.
For People who have never created an E-Card before and for people using dial up and other slow internet connections there are clickable links on the welcome screens that lead to special pages for first time users and those of you using slower connections.
I created it to allow more people to enjoy and share some of my better pictures. The pictures are currently in one big long series and are just numbered in the order they were taken. My next project will be building separate pages for various locations pictures were taken and/or themes like wildlife and sunsets.. There will be pages (for sure) from Ogden Point (probably a separate "Ogden Point Sunsets" page), Beacon Hill Park, Butchart Gardens, Victoria BC, Vancouver BC, Assinniboine Park (Winnipeg), Manitoba in general, and Nova Scotia (I have lots of pictures from those places.). The pages are stored on one web space at Telus (the BC telephone company) and the pictures are stored on a server computer in my living room. Building and editing those pages will take some time. I will post each page as I get it ready.
When you send a "POSTY" from the card site, a notice is sent to the recipient notifying them the card has been created. The card is not actually sent at that time. The card is stored at the card service pickup site and they must retrieve it within 3 weeks to see it. They then view it in their browser so that it never actually downloads to their computer (unless they "Save it as a Web Page").
When the recipient opens the actual card it generates an email notice back to you saying they have picked it up. You can look at the original message and/or do with the email as you wish.
Once the recipient (or you) has viewed the card, they can delete the e-mail notice and the card will self destruct at the appointed time with no further action necessary.
This system allows people to send messages with pictures through firewalls and Spam filters that might block graphic attachments (like Hotmail, AOL and most business systems do) It also allows you to send cards with pictures (and sound) in much smaller messages that won't overload small mailboxes like Hotmail or Yahoo because the card is not actually sent, only the pickup notification is sent.
The site is a "Pro Posty Site" so it is not supported by the nuisance pop up ads, banner ads, and spyware that are the normal part of the advertising supported "Free " sites. I have created the various pages and mail messages myself and the only links to "mypostcards.com" (on whose server the posties are stored for pickup) are some safe links that they require as part of their service.
The process of creating and viewing the Posties is one that does not actually cause the posties to enter your computer in the same way as email. The email messages related to sending and pickup of the posties are an automated process from the service's system, not from an individual computer. That means the messages can't become infected and carry viruses like normal email.
The service is unlimited so you may send as many cards as you want, and if you have friends who would enjoy using the cards, please feel free to tell them about it. You can either forward a copy of this page by email or
Send A Card From Ogden Point
to let them know about it.
If you do forward any email I do ask that you do so responsibly to avoid spam harvesters by backspacing through all old addresses that may be in the body of the message and by forwarding the message to one person at a time or to yourself with the other recipients as BCC's (Blind Copies -- so they don't see each other's addresses and especially so Viruses, Worms, and Spam Harvesters can't find them.)
(If that confuses you send me an email and I'll try to say it in more user friendly terms.)
...ron...
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