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

On Tue, 2/17/2026 5:44 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 17/02/2026 8:39 pm, R.Wieser wrote:
>> Daniel70,
>>
>>> Yeah!! Sure! Polluting another newsgroup makes more sense than posting
>>> your image to a Web-site that is made for that image hosting
>>> purpose then just posting a link in the required newsgroup!!
>>
>> Your blunt rejection would be *way* more impressive if you would have
>> checked that newsgroup out first.
> 
> Sorry!! Which E-S NG should I have checked out first?? And I'm talking E-S NG NOT UseNet NG that are carried by E-S.
> 
>> And funny that you did not respond the same way to Herbert, when he
>> suggested that newsgroup to us.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rudy Wieser
> 
> Sorry, I'm not on-line 24/7 .... and I think I just have replied similarly to Herbert.

E-S has more than one group, with binary picture capability.

  alt.binaries.schematics.electronic

  de.alt.dateien.misc

If you're on Thunderbird, you will notice a bunch of hostinfo.dat
files. Some of those are large, and list all the groups that
the GUI lists in Thunderbird. The list is not necessarily sorted. Some items
will require scrolling (or search in Notepad), to locate that
they do indeed exist. That's a Profile folder, and the eight characters
are randomly generated at installation time. I am not giving the rest
of the path. Using Agent Ransack, I can easily find a bunch of hostinfo.dat .

  abcd1234.default\News\news.eternal-september-1.org\hostinfo.dat   923,045 bytes

The file is a little bit short of 30,000 lines.

Each time you open the subscription dialog in Thunderbird,
Thunderbird is supposed to re-fetch that list to keep it fresh.

If there is any "trouble" with these picture groups, then Ray will just remove them.

When you subscribe to a group, a *second* file holds your subscriptions.
Such a text file, has way fewer than 30,000 lines.

   news.eternal-september.org.rc   <=== your selected groups are in here

      Paul