Testing for Attachments

Darryl Ramm wrote on 2/24/2021 12:49 PM:
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?
I attached an image to this posting. Let's see if anyone sees it!

OK, it wouldn't send because of "invalid content type", probably the nntp.aioe.org server
choking on it. I probably need to use a different server to make it work, like Dan's
eternal-september.org.

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