Re: Screenshots etc.

On Sat, 2/7/2026 3:03 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2026/2/7 3:22:5, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> J. P. Gilliver <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>
>> No worries; I have no desire to post any screenshots here.
>>
>> I was just amused by the idea of someone requesting a screenshot on Usenet.
>>
>> As Tim Walz would say, weird!
>>
>> And, the point is: Usenet *is* a text-only medium, by definition and
>> decree, even if lots of people have abused it over the years.
> 
> People have been requesting screenshots - and in response, people have
> been uploading them to file/image sharing sites, and posting the URL of
> the uploaded file (thus remaining within "text-only" rules) - for years,
> decades I think.
> 

And the web sites hosting the materials, have been throwing
away content for a similar period of time. The dead
sites like imageshack and so on. PostImage did not
keep all its content. There's a generation of material
missing from there, too.

Posting an image on USENET is never going to work well,
due to the max size of posted content. And posting a series
of chunks to build a file, that's a bore.

   Paul