how to "park" data on the internet

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Hi all,

Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.

Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...


any ideas?
 
kwijybo said:
Hi all,

Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.

Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...


any ideas?
Click to expand...

Start a Yahoo Group.
 
Hi all,

Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.

Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...


any ideas?
Click to expand...

http://www.savefile.com/filehost/

It's free and you can supply people with a link where they can download
files you put up there. Size limit is 60mb which means you could have some
documents and a few pics there for your familiy to download. There are a
few others, but the file size for those are considerably smaller.
 
ceed said:
http://www.savefile.com/filehost/

It's free and you can supply people with a link where they can
download files you put up there. Size limit is 60mb which means you
could have some documents and a few pics there for your familiy to
download. There are a few others, but the file size for those are
considerably smaller.
Click to expand...

And yousendit is considerably bigger (one gig)
http://www.yousendit.com/


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Rich_on 25-Jul-2005 said:
Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.
Click to expand...

This is not my list so I can not guarantee that they all work..

http://www.dropload.com
Space: 100Mb
limit: 7 day

http://www.datapickup.com/
Limit: 1.5gb

http://s1.ultrashare.net/
Upload Limit: Maximum 30mb
Your file will remain on their dedicated servers forever as long as
someone downloads it, otherwise the file will be removed if it is unused
for 30 days or you delete it.

http://www.youshareit.com/
Space: 50Mb
limits: 100 download

http://www.yousendit.com
Space: 1Gb, download can resume, special download manager
limits: 25 download or 7 days

http://www.sharebigfile.com
100mb limit, there is a 7 day download limit like some of the others
but you can have 250 dls before link is done.

http://www.rapidshare.de
space: 30Mb, Unlimited downloads
limits: one hour download, wait for countdown, daily download limit,
can't resume download, one IP connection, inactive link deleted after 30
days

http://www.mytempdir.com/
keep the files for 14 days.
25mb file size limit.

http://www.putfile.com
Space: 10Mb
limits: Only images and video

http://www.webfile.ru
Space: 20Mb
limits: bandwidth limit, password protect, russian site

http://sharefiles.ru
Space: 50Mb
limits: bandwidth limit, password protect, russian site

http://www.zippyvideos.com
Space: 5Mb
limits: only Video

http://www.come2store.com
usually down!

http://www.yourfile.net
Space: 1Mb
limits: keep it any time you want
 
kwijybo said:
Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.
Click to expand...

If it's just text files, why not email it to everyone? (Keep it
simple.)

T.
 
kwijybo said:
Hi all,

Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.

Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...

any ideas?
Click to expand...

Here are a few...

Sites to upload files to, for free
http://s8.yousendit.com/
http://rapidshare.de/
http://s1.ultrashare.net/
http://sharefiles.ru
http://www.come2store.com
http://www.datapickup.com/
http://www.dropload.com
http://www.myfilestash.com/
http://www.mytempdir.com/
http://www.putfile.com
http://www.rapidshare.de
http://www.sharebigfile.com
http://www.webfile.ru

Jim Daniel
 
Rich_on 25-Jul-2005 said:
Hi all,

Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
Click to expand...
any ideas?
Click to expand...


Peer2Mail is the first software that lets you store and share files on any
web-mail account. If you have a web mail account with large storage space,
you can use P2M to store files on it. Web-mail providers such as Gmail
(Google Mail), Walla!, Yahoo and more, provide storage space that ranges
from 100MB to 3GB.
P2M splits the file you want to share/store zips and encrypts it. P2M then
sends the file segments one by one to your account. Once P2M uploaded all
file segments, you can download them and use P2M to merge the segments back
to the original file.
Peer2Mail is 100% FREE.

http://www.peer2mail.com/
 
kwijybo said:
Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.

Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...
Click to expand...

This is a very, very easy way to accomplish your goal (nothing new to learn):

Set up a Gmail account for the family. Give all family members the email address and login
information. Everyone will be able to send messages (newsletters etc.) and read messages from
others. (Gmail is especially useful for sharing a large bunch of family photos - IMO much better
than emailing them directly.)

Susan
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Mark said:
Start a Yahoo Group.
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With one proviso.

These days, as far as I've been able to determine, one must agree to be
abused by Yahoo in order to get an account (abuse=spam and possibly more).

When I attempted to sign up over the course of many months, Yahoo would
not process the registration when I gave my free webmail as my address.
It refused with bogus error messages every time.

The way that I got around this was to finally set up the account from a
computer at a public library. I almost never use it.

I regard Yahoo as one of the most eggregious privacy violators on the
internet, right up there with AOL. Like Real Networks, they've seduced
so many of us with free content that's almost unique that we've agreed
to let them have their way with us, and they've become a standard in
this way. We've been complicit in our own violation.

Do I Yahoo?
Not on your life!

Richard
 
kwijybo wrote:

Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.
Click to expand...

A number of people have replied with suggestions of various sites that
offer "parking" services (I like this choice of words).

It would be good to know what the providers want in return. After all,
it costs them money to provide the servers, connectivity, killowatts:
who pays for all this (nothing is free).

A little civilized advertising is a fair trade to my way of thinking.
Much more (such as agreeing to let their partners spam me) is definitely
not. Having to drop security to allow dangerous scripting protocols to
execute would be another turnoff. So, who's well-behaved and who isn't?

Richard
 
1: I've been using Yahoo for years and can recommend it. It's the only
way I've been able to keep calendar, contacts, notes and tasks
synchronized across three computers and two palm devices. Do you get
spammed? Yes, so you go into your marketing preferences and turn it
all off, end of problem. Combine that with an anti-spam solution for
email, you'd never notice.

2: Sharing of text files, on the web, so they are editable? Sure!
Instead of "public gmail accounts" and the like, save your self time
and complexity and use a wiki. Your criteria are EXACTLY what wiki's
are. To find a free wiki already set up that you can use, Google
search for "free wiki farm".

I can recommend Schtuff.com - Nice people, nice wiki- and
Xwiki - VERY nice, feature rich - wiki engine.
To avoid - Swiki.net - goes down occasionally for long periods with
no notice. Emails to support go unanswered.

HTH
John H.
 
kwijybo said:
Hi all,

Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.

Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...
Click to expand...
http://scrivlet.com/ does just that (only)no binaries.
 
kwijybo said:
Hi all,

Suppose I don't have a website (which I don't). Is it possible
to "park" or store data someplace such that people can download
it or add to it? Not binaries or large html files, just plain old text
files.

I suppose I could post it to one if the usenet groups,
but the people I am dealing with (elderly family, don't ask)
dont have access to usenet and dont even want to know
what it is. Don't want anything as fancy as a blog.

Nothing illegal, just a mutual posting zone for a
family newsletter for people who nothing about
computers...


any ideas?
Click to expand...


www.smartgroups.com


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consists in being nothing at all. ___________Soren Kierkegaard

Ellis_jay
 
ellis_jay said:
www.smartgroups.com
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What about an email account with lots of memory space, such as gmail or
yahoo (?) and provide everyone with the address and the password so that
they can send the emails with the stored txts to temselves? Or is this
too complicated?

Why not produce a simple website with one of the free email providers?

Frank
 
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