XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general, alt.msdos.batch.nt   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2/17/2026 5:01 AM, R.Wieser wrote:   
   > Mr. Man-wai Chang,   
   >   
   >> But that's a different newsgroup. Not a good idea in terms of discussion.   
   >   
   > And uploading a file to another, completely unrelated server is better ? :-p   
   >   
   > But yes, people would need to be aware that responding to the post with the   
   > attachment would do little good.  Just like an uploader would need to be   
   > aware that file servers have their own rules and hurdles (cough, javascript,   
   > cough) for anyone wanting to take a peek at their upload.   
   >   
   >> You also need a way to tell others to go that newsgroup to see the image   
   >> by what, message-id? :)   
   >   
   > Thats the same problem as with those image/file servers.   
   >   
   > I could imagine prefixing the name of image with the subject of the thread   
   > its referred from.    Perhaps with the posters name appended.   Or even just   
   > the posters name.   
   >   
   > Regards,   
   > Rudy Wieser   
      
   The M-ID would work, but only for M-ID enabled News Clients.   
   Betterbird or Thunderbird, may be about to gain this function.   
      
   Storage in "de.alt.dateien.misc" would only be as deep   
   as the retention on the server, so that could scroll off.   
      
   Posting a URL to an image-server item isn't difficult, but   
   you have to use a browser suited to the job. Some of the image-servers   
   expect to be running their Javascript on the web page, and the   
   web page may remain blank if the Javascript does not run.   
      
   And in the UK, at least one of the image-servers is blocked.   
      
      Paul   
      
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