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On 8 Feb 2026 10:52:52 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 13:39:27 +0100, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

Good joke. The usenet is nearly completely binary only in these days.

Usenet message is based on email message standard, and email was intended
for text only. Initially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Binary_content

But technology evolve. I think it all started when MIME was created (in
early 90s) and allow messages to be delivered in full 8-bit glory instead of >> just 7-bit. [*]

As others have mentioned, binary content on Usenet/NetNews precedes
MIME by quite a long time. At first, uuencode was used, which works for
a 7-bit data path.

For example the DOS binary of uudecode.com was transmitted as a *text*
file to overcome the Catch-22 problem of the recipient not (yet)
having uudecode.com needed to decode the uuencode-d binaries [1].

[...]

[1] The (59KB) 'CBIP Starter's Kit' posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc
contained:
1) Instructions
2) Text source for UUDECODE
3) UNZIP, ZIP file extractor, in UUENCODE form
"All you need is a file editor."

I was referring to the actual as-is message data which was initially
restricted to 7-bit. Not the encoded binary data it can carry, since binary data can even be encoded in just 1-bit.
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J. P. Gilliver wrote:

I think, for the purposes covered here (someone asked for/suggested a screenshot, someone else said how do you do that on a text-only medium,
I and others said you don't - you put it somewhere else and post the URL
of where you've put it on the text-only medium), the _longevity_ of the
image storage isn't that important: someone is posting a problem (or a solution), others see it within the time it's kept, and suggest
solutions (or note the one shown).

I've always been the best of the best in almost everything that I do so, naturally, I've posted, oh, I don't know, thousands of screenshots here.

I do that to explain stuff, such as how to change the Windows taskbar
in ways that out of a million people, only six know how to do that.
<https://i.postimg.cc/sD6sDsgw/dsclock02.jpg>
<https://i.postimg.cc/mrCGrsVY/dsclock03.jpg>
<https://i.postimg.cc/hGrL20ZK/dsclock04.jpg>
<https://i.postimg.cc/3r42Dnz6/dsclock05.jpg>

Personally, I've noticed that only the people who are the kindest and most caring are the ones who post the screenshots, as they too are the best.
--
Those who are the best of the best are those who care most to help people.
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