On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:49:41 -0800, Darryl Ramm wrote:

On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 11:11:35 AM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
Well, It worked for me!

It worked for anybody using a modern USENET reader. The old USENET,
which is where rec.aviation.soaring really lives is all ASCII characters
and supported attachments by converting things like Images to a ASCII
text encoding. Thunderbird (a great USENET reader) is making this simple
for you, but under the covers it's converting that jpg image to the text
encoding and converting it back when you read the message. Folks with
ancient USENET readers might see the encoded text as

--------------0DAD4A81AAF329A2D963103A Content-Type: image/jpeg;
name="T-Birds.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="T-Birds.jpg"

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/7Q3yUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+0AAAAAABABLAAA
AAEAAQEsAAAAAQABOEJJTQQNAAAAAAAEAAAAeDhCSU0D8wAAAA AACAAAAAAAAAAAOEJJTQQK
AAAAAAABAAA4QklNJxAAAAAAAAoAAQAAAAAAAAACOEJJTQP1AA AAAABIAC9mZgABAGxmZgAG


And Google Groups... which is a pretty crappy front-end to USENET...
well it just ignores all attachments.

Darryl


Dan 5J

On 2/24/21 12:00 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
Since I use the Thunderbird email client to read RAS and I just
discovered that I can attach a file to a message, I thought I'd do a
test run. Anybody out there see the picture?

Not here with the Pan newsreader - it wouldn't display them but did save
them - without saying where.


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