Re: Screenshots etc.

On 2026/2/8 0:56:6, Paul wrote:
> 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
> 
I think, for the purposes covered here (someone asked for/suggested a
screenshot, someone else said how do you do that on a text-only medium,
I and others said you don't - you put it somewhere else and post the URL
of where you've put it on the text-only medium), the _longevity_ of the
image storage isn't that important: someone is posting a problem (or a
solution), others see it within the time it's kept, and suggest
solutions (or note the one shown).

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