On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 12:45 +0000, Joseph Voros via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 13:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > The list doesn't use "listserv" but Mailman. Be that as it may, as I
> > mentioned to you offline, the preferred method of doing this is to put
> > the image on a publicly accessible website and post the URL to the
> > list.
> 
> Sorry, showing my age -- for me "listserv" is a generic term for any
> automated email list, dating from my days way back in the Paleolithic of
> the interwebs ;-)

It was never a generic term. It used to refer to a specific mailing
list system on IBM's BITNIC corporate network in ye olden days pre-
Internet, which IIRC used the hair-raising kludge of submitting
messages as batch jobs to VM/370 mainframes. It has also been used for
other systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV

> I didn't see advice about placing images onto web sites, but I shall employ
> that method hereafter, if necessary.

I'm pretty sure I replied to you off-list (wearing my list moderator
hat), but it doesn't matter.

poc

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