Re: Screenshots etc.

JJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 13:39:27 +0100, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> > 
> > Good joke. The usenet is nearly completely binary only in these days.
> 
> Usenet message is based on email message standard, and email was intended
> for text only. Initially.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Binary_content
> 
> But technology evolve. I think it all started when MIME was created (in
> early 90s) and allow messages to be delivered in full 8-bit glory instead of
> just 7-bit. [*]

  As others have mentioned, binary content on Usenet/NetNews precedes
MIME by quite a long time. At first, uuencode was used, which works for
a 7-bit data path.

  For example the DOS binary of uudecode.com was transmitted as a *text*
file to overcome the Catch-22 problem of the recipient not (yet)
having uudecode.com needed to decode the uuencode-d binaries [1].

[...]

[1] The (59KB) 'CBIP Starter's Kit' posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc
contained:
1) Instructions
2) Text source for UUDECODE
3) UNZIP, ZIP file extractor, in UUENCODE form
"All you need is a file editor."