On 6/4/18 12:34 PM, Peter Pearson wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 20:20:32 +0200, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > [snip] >> On 2018-06-03 13:57:26 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >>> (For good reasons, attachments are dropped when messages are distributed >>> on the forum.) >> By "the forum" you mean Gmane? (I got the attachment over the mailing >> list) > Comp.lang.python is a usenet newsgroup, also accessible through a mailing > list (and, I think, a web interface). NNTP, the Network News Transfer > Protocol, does not provide for attachments. > NNTP most certainly can provide for attachments, and I would guess that well over 90% of the traffic (might even be 99%) on usenet is carried in attachments. Just wander over to the swamp of alt.binaries.*
Now, most news servers are configured to discard most attachments on messages (or the whole message if it has an attachment) if posted to a group not specifically marked as a 'binary' newsgroup, just like a lot of mailing list are similarly setup. -- Richard Damon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
