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RichardB[_2_] · 08-07-2007, 05:48 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens

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Wolf expounded:

If you want the widest possible audience for his or her posts, don't use
yEnc. MIME or uuencode works with _all_ newsreaders. Most people
nowadays buy a computer as an appliance - a machine that's ready to go,
doing all the things they want it to do. Why should they get additional
software to read a post in a non-standard format?

You keep saying how non-standard yEnc is, and yet there are plenty of
newsreaders out there that handle it seamlessly. Defend M$ all you
want. They are the ones who choose to not handle *all* formats, no
matter what the reason. Agent is the best $29 you'll ever spend for
reading news.

I highly recomment WinVN, an open-source newsreader originally developed by
NASA in the early days of the Internet, and since maintained and improved by
various authors, most recently Mark Spankus. WinVN does everything I want,
decodes all formats seamlessly, doesn't require one to actually look at
articles before decoding them, has powerful filtering/killfile capabilities,
is small and efficient, etc. The latest version can be found at
http://www.marks-lab.com/ . I recommend the latest version (12w).