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[email protected] gfretwell@aol.com is offline
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Default Yo Alex and Harry!

On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:52:23 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

You folks should all just buy some web space like an adult ;-)

You can have several gig online for about $50 a year and not be
beholden to anyone or make your friends suffer pop up ads and spam
just for looking at your stuff.
You usually also get private Email server that only the russians will
be snooping in on. ;-)
Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and even my AOL is regularly swept for marketing
opportunities and information sales to 3d parties.
As Ellison says, if you are not paying for a product, you ARE the
product.


Cox says I have a lot of free storage, but I've no idea how to put photos on it.


If that is still true it is worth looking into. A lot of these ISPs
have dropped the free hosting.
I use "Fling" a free program that just lets you mirror a directory on
your hard drive with what you want online.
That can be pictures or other files or, if it is an HTML file, it is a
web page.
Just be sure there is an index.htm(l) in your top directory.
You don't really even need a web authoring program. Most Email clients
output HTML documents and you can make pretty fancy ones with Word.
I have a couple HTML editors but they are all free. I can also write
HTML but it is cumbersome. I usually use something else to create the
boiler plate and edit it in note pad if I want to change something
fairly minor.
If you do not have an index file, you just get an FTP menu with a list
of file names. I have lots of pure FTP directories. Google is less
likely to find a page you can't navigate to although they never forget
a link you post.