Re: Screenshots etc.

Char Jackson <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:06:51 -0600
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 09:10:58 +0100, "R.Wieser" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Paul,
>
>> Posting an image on USENET is never going to work well,
>> due to the max size of posted content.
>
>And yet it has been working well for decades now - proven by the fact that 
>binary newsgroups are still thriving.

I was going to respond to Paul, but you covered it nicely, thanks.

Taking a casual look just now, the biggest *single* post that I see is
2,796,888,255 KB, (about 2.8 TB!), so yeah, size limits aren't a real
thing. Besides, if you need a larger capacity you just break it into
pieces, as mentioned directly below. Easy peasy.

>> And posting a series of chunks to build a file,
>
>And yes, thats exactly how its done.   Which you no doubt already know.
>
>> that's a bore.
>
>That's why you let a program/script do the uploading.  And downloading, if 
>you are a leecher.