Re: (iso Pythonic code) -- if Usenet allowed a small image embedded in a msg, ...

On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Colin Macleod wrote:

> D <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>>
>> And regardless, your usenet client is free to implement some kind of
>> graphics handling. The least you can do is to include a html link to a
>> graphic if it is necessary.
>
> That's not a bad idea. I might try to put that in the usenet web client I'm
> working on, once I get the basic functionality sorted out.
>
> Of course you then have the problem of how to respond to illegal or
> objectionable images being posted, that needs some thought.

I see two options for that problem.

1. Caveat emptor.

2. Prefetching and either matching against a database or some kind of "AI" 
classification magic. Either way will increase the complexity and/or 
depdendencies of your software a lot.