@Steven Avery:I tried Google Groups. The mail goes to the receiver fine, identical to Yahoogroups. Then the big issue is the archiving. Where it is better than Yahoogroups, but it converts the embedded .jpg to an attachment .jpg...
... the pic does show up properly within a gmail account.
-Steven Avery
That doesn't seem to be quite correct, as proved by the following tests:
Test 1: Using Gmail, I just went through the process of dragging and dropping a .jpg image file into an email, and sending it to a Google group.
Results:The .jpg image file showed clearly in the email during compose and was NOT registered as an attached file.
The .jpg image file shows clearly as an embedded file in the email posted to the Google group, and right-clicking on it shows the filename "image.jpeg".
The .jpg image does not show in the "sent" email in Gmail, is NOT registered as an attached file, but is represented by an icon embedded in the text of the email, and right-clicking on it shows the filename "image.jpeg".
I repeated Test 1, but with a .png image file, and got identical results, except the file gets named to "image.png".Test 2: Using Gmail again, I forwarded an email to a Google group. The email - which had been forwarded to me - contained embedded linked Picasa images from a friend.
Results:The images showed up fine in the group post, except (interestingly) for some images which had been deleted from Picasa since the original email that had been forwarded to me.
The images showed up fine in the "sent" email.
Test 3: Using Gmail again, I pasted a
.png image - which I had earlier copied into CHS (Clipboard Help & Spell) - into the email, and sent it to a Google group.
Results:The .png image file showed clearly in the email during compose and was NOT registered as an attached file.
The .png image file
did not show as an embedded image nor was it registered as file in the post to the Google group - there was nothing to show that it had been there.
The .png image does not show in the "sent" email in Gmail, is NOT registered as an attached file, but is represented by a lot of garbage text embedded in the text of the email.
So, it looks as though you can do what you want, using Gmail and Google groups,
if the images are embedded (not attached) .jpg or .png images, and have not been "pasted" into the email - they then seem to stay embedded in the text of the group post, just as they were in the text of the email.