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

On Tue, 2/17/2026 8:07 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:43:40 -0500, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2/17/2026 5:01 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
>>> Mr. Man-wai Chang,
>>>
>>>> But that's a different newsgroup. Not a good idea in terms of discussion.
>>>
>>> And uploading a file to another, completely unrelated server is better ? :-p
>>>
>>> But yes, people would need to be aware that responding to the post with the 
>>> attachment would do little good.  Just like an uploader would need to be 
>>> aware that file servers have their own rules and hurdles (cough, javascript, 
>>> cough) for anyone wanting to take a peek at their upload.
>>>
>>>> You also need a way to tell others to go that newsgroup to see the image 
>>>> by what, message-id? :)
>>>
>>> Thats the same problem as with those image/file servers.
>>>
>>> I could imagine prefixing the name of image with the subject of the thread 
>>> its referred from.    Perhaps with the posters name appended.   Or even just 
>>> the posters name.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rudy Wieser
>>
>> The M-ID would work, but only for M-ID enabled News Clients.
>> Betterbird or Thunderbird, may be about to gain this function.
> 
> I assume you mean natively. 

Yes, a native method.

Betterbird Portable  140.7.1esr-bb18 (64-bit)

betterbirdlauncher "mid:[email protected]"

Somehow, it knows which server out of six in my list to use.
On purpose, I "selected" a non-functional server, to try to confuse it,
and eventually it still opened a window on the server where the message exists.

Whether it is doing this, via searching all the Mork Summary Files .msf,
I don't know. It might mean, that one of the requirements would be for
the user to have all their server message lists up-to-date.

My first concern, was of the MID URI design. I figured it should
have the server name, followed by a MID string. But the above syntax worked.

It worked on that example.

I did NOT (so far), see a menu item added for this. It likely would work
with a MID buried in a message, so we should leave one here later for test.
If this feature was working well, I should be able to click one of these
that looks sufficiently like a URI and a separate tab should open after
you actuate it.

      <[email protected]>

     mid:[email protected]

And maybe one of those strings will work. We'll see.

   Paul