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

Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote in news:urj809$ssv$1
@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net:

> On 2/26/24 03:51, Colin Macleod wrote:
>> There's a big difference between encoding gigabyte videos into 
>> hundreds of posts, and including a small picture or graphic *as part 
>> of a message* just as one might do in an email.
> 
> There is and there isn't at the same time.
> 
> What differentiates someone from sending thousands of messages with 32 
> kB binary to make up the image from someone else that sends a 32 kB 
> graphic to discuss?
> 
Unfortunately, I think you do have a point there.

So I think the next-best thing is for the post to include the URL of an 
image hosted elsewhere, and for the reader to have the option to load 
images or not, as most email clients do.  Note that this cannot be misused 
to track individual readers as happens with email, because all readers get 
the same image link.

-- 
Colin Macleod.