Re: Screenshots etc.

On 8 Feb 2026 10:52:52 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

> 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."

I was referring to the actual as-is message data which was initially
restricted to 7-bit. Not the encoded binary data it can carry, since binary
data can even be encoded in just 1-bit.