How to share a photo so youse all can see it?

Well, that's a shame, it worked the last time I used it, but that was a couple of years ago at least.

- Mike

I guess Virgin Media's news server must be one of the few that allow such "attachments" to be processed. Your monochrome image appeared as a separate 'duplicate posting' of 1486 lines long which Pan obligingly displayed as an image rather than as an inscrutable 'message' of uuencode text.

Or, in the case of my text based newsreader, 1500 lines of gibberish. Sending non-text to a text newsgroup is gnerally exceedingly unpopular with other group users.

Not so annoying if your news client automatically decodes the uuenc and processes it into a displayable image as Pan appears to handle such postings.

Presumably, most usenet clients simply display the gibberish as a very large text posting so I can understand its unpopularity from past experience with other news clients that I've tried over the years so I'm not condoning this practice, just sayin' is all.

I'm not trying to be objectionable at all, just pointing out that, while it is technically possible to send small pictures to text groups, it is widely considered to be the wrong thing to do. And larger pictures will almost certainly result in the post being rejected or truncated by most text servers. In either case, many or most of the readership will not see the picture.

No, in most cases it is NOT technically possible, since the news servers strip out anything that isnt pure text.

, it is

Its not 'considered', it IS. Becxause its usually doesnt WORK.

ALL pictures And ALL attachments.

And how, pray, does a news server distinguish a *small* uuencoded picture from the ASCII gibberish that so many of us type anyway?

While a heuristic involving the various kinds of delimiting phrases used is probably feasible, most news servers don't.

It doesnt. Anything that isnt mime encoded as text gets stripped off

So not even small pictures make it through In fact some are picky abiout "text/html" types, too./

Mike's server sent his picture as a separate message. The following is all the headers up to the first line of the encoded picture. Which is the mime type in this? As I said, such things could be detected, but a size limit seems a more likely cause for rejection. If you can get the picture into 800 lines I suspect many news servers would pass it as text:

Xref: news uk.d-i-y:1676308 Path: feeders.as203319.net!feeder03.as203319.net!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 07:46:12 -0600 From: Mike Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: How to share a photo so youse all can see it? - The news image autocon um1 50.jpg (1/1) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:46:23 +0000 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Lines: 1486 X-Usenet-Provider:

begin 644 The news image autocon um1 50.jpg M_]C_X``02D9)1@`!`0$`2`!(``#_X1$=17AI9@``34T`*@````@`!P$2``,`

Exactly. By the way base64 is more usual these days...

VHJ1ZSwgYW5kIHRoYXQgd29uJ3QgYmUgc3RyaXBwZWQgZWl0aGVyLi4u

you might be able to enciode it in PGP then copy what's extracted and conv ert that but I would say that methode would be suitable for all to see as a picture, but it could get you around the problem but a lot of hassle and n ot really what the OP is looking for.

That might work in a binaries group, but most servers will drop it from text groups.