Screenshots etc. (was: Re: Whats the %=C:% environment variable used for ?)

On 2026/2/6 19:6:49, Maria Sophia wrote:
> Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>     2) (Speaking of screenshots) Given that this is Usenet, and Usenet is
>>     (supposed to be) a text-only medium, how would one go about posting a

Well, a lot of usenet is - many newsgroups, and many (especially the
free) newsservers. There _are_ newsgroups that carry attachments - used
to be called "binaries"; even some whose main reason for existing is to
do so. In general, only carried by paid newsservers.

>>     screenshot, should one desire to do so?  Is there any established
>>     protocol?

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> But for Kenny's question above, most of us use some form of free
> image-hosting web site, where the one I use most asks for no login.

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Or just general file-sharing site. (And, of course, include in your
newsgroup post - or email - the URL of the uploaded file.)

Note that most such sites (fair enough, they've got to pay for
themselves somehow) surround the image being shared with ad.s, and/or
require you to log in, and so on. Note also that one of the common image
ones isn't accessible from the UK (again, fair enough: the UK passed
laws controlling what's accessible to minors, and that site rather than
employing staff to vet either the uploads or those trying to access
them, took the simpler way out).

(FWIW, since I have a small web site [more or less vanity] anyway, I
just dump any such files into a directory on it. For example
<https://255soft.uk/temp/%5Bopening%20crisps%20in%20pub%5D%20ETBC-1qXQAAhhVW.jpg>._
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