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>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> ..., and the alt texts are often just the url itself, so it's awkward.

In the early days of the web, 1994 or thereabouts, I experimented with
putting ASCII art versions of the image in tha alt attribute.

I was quickly told to stop doing that.