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Michael McMurtrey is currently offline  Michael McMurtrey
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My Mail application has started doing something strange: When I copy a
JPEG to paste it into an outgoing email, Mail is converting it to a
TIFF. How do I make it stop? I've checked the Preferences, but there's
nothing there that seems to apply.

Mail 3.6
OS X 10.5.8
Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 (MDD)

Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX

"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic."

On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:46 AM, g3-5-list@googlegroups.com wrote:

> Today's Topic Summary

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>

> They're Following Me... [5 Updates]

> They're Following Me...

> JohnV <vengbjohn@verizon.net> Mar 07 03:11PM -0500

>

> Ok, I've always known about the cookies thing and erasing (or not

> accepting ) them, but things have moved on.

> How is it that now I am getting several specific singular ads

> following me around websites, forums and anything else?

> I clear cookies, caches and went so far as to dump the entire HISTORY

> in Safari wondering what it is that identifies me and brings these

> singular things onto my screen.

> Any thoughts?

>

> John V

>

> Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> Mar 07 01:36PM -0700

>

>> How is it that now I am getting several specific singular ads

> following me around websites, forums and anything else?

>> I clear cookies, caches and went so far as to dump the entire

> HISTORY in Safari wondering what it is that identifies me and brings

> these singular things onto my screen.

>> Any thoughts?

>

> They're probably using your IP address for geolocation, which is why

> most of the ad-supported websites I hit seem to have ads for "Tucson

> Mother makes money fast!" and the like.

>

> My suggestion is ignore the ads. If you really want ot browse in

> private, use Incognito windows in Chrome, or Priavte Browsing in

> Safari, etc.

>

> Owners of websites DO have some control over what ads are placed on

> them, so if there's something egregiously offensive tell the

> webmaster of the site in question.

>

> --

> Bruce Johnson

> University of Arizona

> College of Pharmacy

> Information Technology Group

>

> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

>

> Kris Tilford <ktilford1@cox.net> Mar 07 02:43PM -0600

>

> On Mar 7, 2013, at 2:11 PM, JohnV wrote:

>

>> I clear cookies, caches and went so far as to dump the entire

>> HISTORY in Safari wondering what it is that identifies me and brings

>> these singular things onto my screen.

>

> They track your IP address also, so you'll need to use something like

> Tor to remain more anonymous. Even Tor can be tracked with some

> effort. I have cable which is supposed to be dynamic IP, but AFAIK

> they rarely if ever change my IP. If I started hosting they'd probably

> pop my IP just to make it more difficult for me, after all, they're

> not a bi-directional "information super highway," they're one-way

> "intravenous ads for fun & profit".

>

> As in all things, there is a cost to be paid to remain anonymous, in

> this case Tor results in a noticeable increase in latency before

> webpages load, the cost of slicing & dicing all those packets across

> all those anonymous Tor nodes.

>

> Tor on a PPC Mac may be difficult to setup now. AFAIK you use Vidalia

> for PPC, but finding a browser may be harder, I suspect you'll need

> TenFourFox or something with plugins enabled and a Tor plugin? The

> current "Tor Browser Bundle" required OS X 10.6+ and Intel, so getting

> Tor working on PPC may be a bit of a challenge now, but I'm sure it

> can be done. Just search Tor PPC or Vidalia PPC.

>

> Here are current PPC versions of Vidalia to get you started:

> <https://www.torproject.org/dist/vidalia-bundles/>

>

> Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> Mar 07 01:46PM -0700

>

>

>> Tor on a PPC Mac may be difficult to setup now. AFAIK you use

> Vidalia for PPC, but finding a browser may be harder, I suspect

> you'll need TenFourFox or something with plugins enabled and a Tor

> plugin? The current "Tor Browser Bundle" required OS X 10.6+ and

> Intel, so getting Tor working on PPC may be a bit of a challenge

> now, but I'm sure it can be done. Just search Tor PPC or Vidalia PPC.

>

>> Here are current PPC versions of Vidalia to get you started:

>> <https://www.torproject.org/dist/vidalia-bundles/>

>

> Much simpler to find someone else's wifi to get on the internet :-)

>

> --

> Bruce Johnson

> University of Arizona

> College of Pharmacy

> Information Technology Group

>

> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

>

> Judith Berkowitz <sfjberk@mac.com> Mar 07 03:05PM -0800

>

> On Mar 7, 12:11 pm, JohnV <vengbj...@verizon.net> wrote:

> ...

>> How is it that now I am getting several specific singular ads

>> following me around websites, forums and anything else?

> ...

>> Any thoughts?

>

>> John V

>

> - Adblock Plus adblockplus.org/

> and

> - Click to Flash clicktoflash.com/

> get rid of the symptoms of the problem.

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Re: Strange Mail behavior [message #41942 is a reply to message #41926] Sat, 09 March 2013 15:38 Go to previous message
Kris Tilford is currently offline  Kris Tilford
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On Mar 9, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Michael McMurtrey wrote:

> When I copy a JPEG to paste it into an outgoing email, Mail is

> converting it to a TIFF.


Rather than using copy/paste operation you should drag & drop to JPEG
file into the email; or use the attachment button to select the JPEG
file as an attachment to the email.

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