Re: why graphical screenshot? from a command prompt console window?

On 2/16/2026 9:52 PM, Paul wrote:
> On Mon, 2/16/2026 8:09 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> On 2/12/2026 12:00 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>>
>>> Nevertheless many users would send graphical screenshots of the
>>> output, which wasted bandwidth, as well as making it necessary to
>>> retype whatever was on the screen if one wanted to use it.
>>
>> I tried to attach a screenshot.jpg to a message in another newsgroup, but was rejected. In the end I had to use image-hosting. :)
> 
> By charter, some groups have MIME filters which prevent MIME messages
> of any sort. An HTML message will not post. A MIME with image attachment
> will not be accepted either. That's not an image filter as such -- the
> image filter would be a tool that analyzes the body of the main message
> and rejects the submission (on a non-MIME message where the image
> is in-line).
> 
> Some read-only servers have stopped receiving messages,
> which means they cannot be relied upon for completion.
My screenshot was just 50K in side. Well.... it's still considered big 
by old standard (MS-DOS days). :)

I could try MIME (binary) attachment, but that's not directly supported 
and displayed by Thunderbird. You will need to use Outlook Express to 
see it directly.

I think MIME attachment is also not considered good behavior by Usenet, 
in the strictest sense. Well.... :)

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