'Mike' wrote:
alt.binaries.photos.original

I post an item which invites people to look at an item which is of gardening
interest, and they are too stupid to make a sensible contribution :-((

Alas, old chap, all you posted was the name of a group. No means to
identify a particular image within it.

Not everyone can get binary groups - many isps do not carry them on
free newservers because of the heavy porn load - and there is no common
way to find individual items that is used by every newsreader (although
most will work of message ID if possible)

http://tinypic.com/ works quite well for making individual pictures
accessible to all.