Re: (iso Pythonic code) -- if Usenet allowed a small image embedded in a msg, ...
Seamus <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | news.software.readers,alt.culture.usenet |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 26/02/24 10:51, Colin Macleod wrote: > Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote in > news:[email protected]: > >> On 2/25/24 15:14, HenHanna wrote: >>> i just think that... if Usenet allowed a small image to be >>> embedded in a post, its appeal would be so much >>> Greater! >> >> Usenet is perfectly capable of conveying images, and other binary >> content. >> >> Many Usenet server administrators have made the choice to not carry >> binary content on their servers. >> >> If you want binary content, go use a different server. Binary content >> is unwelcome on many servers. >> >> >> > > 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. I think it would be very > helpful to allow the second more generally, with sensible limits on > attachment size. > The latter would, of course, immediately be abused to store sections of gigabyte videos.