how to post attachments

[Maxim Yurkin]

A few people asked me about it, so I decided to put it in a separate thread. I have read some help texts for Google
groups and will summarize below my current opinion. It is possible that it is not entirely correct.

The easiest way to attach anything to your message is to use e-mail interface. This way you just attach anything you
want to your e-mail to adda-d...@googlegroups.com and it automatically appears attached to your post on the website.
However, if you're not subscribed to the group you can only start new threads this way (as far as I know), but not
participate in existing ones.

To participate in the existing discussion by e-mail you need to have a last message from this thread in your inbox. Then
you just reply to it and it gets automatically positioned to a corresponding thread by Google. To have it in your inbox
you should have been subscribed to the group or at least to the particular thread (you can do it when viewing the thread
in the web interface) at the time when this last message was posted. While this is a good motivation to be permanently
subscribed to the group (you may use digest subscription to minimize traffic), it doesn't help you if you are a newcomer.

In the latter case you may try the following workaround: 1) subscribe to the group or to the thread; 2) post text-only
message to the chosen thread using the web-interface - then you should receive a copy of your post in your inbox; 3)
reply to the latter in your e-mail client attaching the files. I haven't done this myself, so if you try please comment
on the result.

Coming back to the web-interface - it is possible to post images as well, but it is done not exactly how you may expect
it. Instead of attaching files to the post itself, you may upload files to the group
http://groups.google.com/group/adda-discuss/files and then refer to them in your post. But you have to join the group
(possibly without subscribing to it) to upload files. The interesting thing is that when you attach files to the
e-mails, as discussed above, they do not appear in files section of the group.

Maxim.

[Rick]

Hi,

The workaround was successful. I think you may be able to find the
topic you are interested in and enter that as a subject (Re: how to
post attachments) and send the email to the address listed (adda-
dis...@googlegroups.com) even if you aren't a member or don't
normally receive emails. I didn't try this yet, though.

Rick

On May 15, 10:40 am, Maxim Yurkin <yur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A few people asked me about it, so I decided to put it in a separate thread. I have read some help texts for Google
> groups and will summarize below my current opinion. It is possible that it is not entirely correct.
>
> The easiest way to attach anything to your message is to use e-mail interface. This way you just attach anything you
> want to your e-mail to adda-d...@googlegroups.com and it automatically appears attached to your post on the website.
> However, if you're not subscribed to the group you can only start new threads this way (as far as I know), but not
> participate in existing ones.
>
> To participate in the existing discussion by e-mail you need to have a last message from this thread in your inbox. Then
> you just reply to it and it gets automatically positioned to a corresponding thread by Google. To have it in your inbox
> you should have been subscribed to the group or at least to the particular thread (you can do it when viewing the thread
> in the web interface) at the time when this last message was posted. While this is a good motivation to be permanently
> subscribed to the group (you may use digest subscription to minimize traffic), it doesn't help you if you are a newcomer.
>
> In the latter case you may try the following workaround: 1) subscribe to the group or to the thread; 2) post text-only
> message to the chosen thread using the web-interface - then you should receive a copy of your post in your inbox; 3)
> reply to the latter in your e-mail client attaching the files. I haven't done this myself, so if you try please comment
> on the result.
>
> Coming back to the web-interface - it is possible to post images as well, but it is done not exactly how you may expect

> it. Instead of attaching files to the post itself, you may upload files to the grouphttp://groups.google.com/group/adda-discuss/filesand then refer to them in your post. But you have to join the group

[Maxim Yurkin]

> The workaround was successful. I think you may be able to find the topic you are interested in and enter that as a
> subject (Re: how to post attachments) and send the email to the address listed (adda- dis...@googlegroups.com) even
> if you aren't a member or don't normally receive emails. I didn't try this yet, though.

Actually, I did try this simpler approach and it did not work. A new thread was creating with the same subject, which I
deleted afterwards. It seems that for matching not the subject but headers like "References" or "In-Reply-To" are
used, which are not visible on the group web site. So these headers can't be easily "forged".

Maxim.

[Maxim Yurkin]

Concerning the posting attachments through the web interface - it seems that it is no more possible. Google has decided
to discontinue its support for files and pages on Google groups (
http://groups-announcements.blogspot.com/2010/09/notice-about-pages-and-files.html ), so the only remaining way to use
attachments is through e-mail attachments.

In other words, the workaround for posting attachments through the web interface, which was discussed in previous
messages, is no more operational.

Maxim.

[charles....@gmail.com]

google has disabled both the Google Groups Web UI file attachment and the Google Groups (e/g)mail file attachment.

Today, you have to add the file to be shared to your Google Drive and then enable sharing and then get a link to the file,

which you can send via email or share via the Groups web ui.

[Bill Janzen]

I found (stumbled across) a much simpler way to get attachments into my Google Group conversations.  To follow this, I'll let you know that when I initially set up my Google Group (I'm the owner), I did so from an email address (not my own personal one) that I had set up previouly called xyz@gmail.com and named my new Google Group xyz (i.e., same as my email address).

Now....

Taking your initial advice, I was experimenting with the "Reply" method to a previous posting.  It was a bit cumbersome.  

Then I remembered a problem I had encountered a few times by accident (mainly while trying to forward emails on my phone):  If I was forwarding an email (or even composing a new email) to my xyz@gmail.com address from the same address (xyz@gmail.com) and inadvertently hit xyz@googlegroups.com instead, it wound up being posted to my entire Group!  How embarrassing!  I had to learn to be more careful from then on!

So, recalling all that ordeal, and actually needing to post a new conversation to my Group about something that required adding attachments, I went into my xyz@gmail.com address (as the owner), composed my message the same way I would when logged into my Group, added the attachments, and then hit the "Send" button.

Presto!  My conversation was posted to the entire Group.  Then I did it again with another important conversation with attachments.  It made it!

Now, since my Group is solely for sending notices, etc, I've marked everyone as "Not allowed" to post (long story) except for one other trusted member.  So this little trick wouldn't work for any of them, but it certainly has removed a huge headache from my life!

Bill Janzen

[chris banks]

Will there be a time when ordinary people can post to google groups without a degree in computer science? 

[D Gillies]

I am pretty certain it's a size limitation, not a total ban on posting photos.

I had a photo that I edited and it blew up in size to 8.5MB and could not be posted.

When I resampled it as jpeg 85% it went down to 1.5MB and posted just fine.
I guess some abusers might have been using groups as free photo albums!

- Don Gillies

Palo Alto, CA, USA