>[ Links provided by the author to photos at external web sites
>[ are always published within the MMD article.  It is up to the
>[ author to place the image files at the external site.
>[ -- Robbie

And herein lies the problem.  External links become invalid because
the original posters change provider, delete them or whatever and thus
after just a relatively short time, they are lost.  That is the same
as the just links being posted to peoples' responses in the MMD --
the information would be lost.  Whilst this was the standard 10 years
ago, it is no longer the norm.

Regards,
Bernt Damm
Sydney

 [ Bernt, in your last post I said that I agreed with you.  I agree
 [ with this post as well.   I'm inclined to provide a method to
 [ upload photos on the article submission form on the MMD website.
 [ I realize that this is less convenient than just attaching them to
 [ a piece of e-mail, but the machinery we use for processing the
 [ incoming traffic is, I'm afraid, very "old school".  It would be
 [ easy to provide the links to the uploaded images automatically
 [ to the editors.   This would also keep the Digest mailings from
 [ becoming huge as they would if Digests had imbedded photos.
 
 [ I wish we had a way to address, in general, the issue of external
 [ links becoming "stale".  There's lots of good stuff posted here that
 [ references off-site links.  Unfortuantely many of them change or
 [ go away with time...     --Jody