The photographs Danny asked for
Keep something that has arrived attached to an email, and write back with two photographs traveling alongside your answer — with nobody standing over your shoulder.
This whole course has been about post: an address in two halves, a letter, a copy traveling along with it, and knowing which button answers one person and which answers everybody.
Here is a practice computer, one message from somebody who loves you, and two things to do about it. Nothing on the screen will tell you which button to press, and nothing here leaves this machine.
Key points
- Keep something that arrived attached to an email, so that it is yours rather than only the email’s.
- Answer the person who wrote to you, with the right things traveling alongside your words.
- Send several files at once, and know they have gone before you press Send.
What to remember
- The paperclip works the same way in every email program there has ever been. Save takes a copy of theirs and puts it on your machine; Attach takes a copy of yours and sends it out. Neither one moves the original, which means there is nothing you can do to a photograph by emailing it.
- Honestly — how was that?
Try this
Find the last photograph anybody emailed you and save it properly onto your computer. It is one press, and it means the picture outlives the day you finally tidy your inbox.
Practice: The photographs Danny asked for. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.