Re: Garberstreet Now Accepting Uploads

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"roughana" <andrew.roughan@writeme.com> wrote in message
1160110061.832461.229230@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com">news:1160110061.832461.229230@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
: unfortunately, the use of '@' in the url causes Google groups to
: interpret the url as an email address and it tries to protect the email
: address by dropping characters from it. so the url is not completely
: visible to me in your post.
:
: additionally, news items are by nature just text. unless the newsreader
: that is being used is smart enough to recognise the text as a url and
: make it into a url for you, there is nothing to click.
:
: people using google groups as a reader on windows with internet
: explorer (such as myself) need to copy and paste the url into their
: browser address bar.
:
: I've just found that by replying to your message the quoted text
: actually includes the full url, so I've been able to get it and can
: confirm that it works.
:
: the url is
: ftp:// garberstreet1.2:75f12d 'at' garberstreet 'dot' com
: (remove the spaces and convert the two symbols in the obvious places)
:
: cheers,
: Andrew


Thanks Andrew. It is meant for use in a web browser.
Netfirms actually told me there was no way to do it,
but I did a little 'Googling' and found this way, so
at least people will be able to download from me.

William Garber
http://www.garberstreet.com
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com