painted stained glass!

Binary files like pictures have no place on a newsgroup like uk.d-i-y anyway - the best option is to do what a lot of folk do and upload any pics to one of the plethora of free websites out there, and then just post the link on the newsgroup. Thus interested parties can view the pics if they want, without clogging up the newsgroup.

David

In message , Doki writes

And some of us (even on Cable) use a news server that strips out such stuff from postings to text groups so never see it anyway.

Just like what the original poster seemed to be saying? Is that what you mean?

Tell me, how do you put pictures on this newsgroup? For some unexplicable reason I had assumed it impossible. Typical of me, I am a genetically unmodifiable newbie.

"Michael McNeil" wrote | > Binary files like pictures have no place on a newsgroup like uk.d-i-y | Tell me, how do you put pictures on this newsgroup? For some | unexplicable reason I had assumed it impossible. Typical of me, I am a | genetically unmodifiable newbie.

It isn't possible if you're using the Google web-based service.

If you use a newsreader like Outlook Express [1] then you can send a picture with a posting in a similar way to sending a picture with a mail message as an attachment.

But you shouldn't. The uk.* news hierachy is a plain-text only environment - no HTML, no pics or other 'binaries'.

Owain