"Wolf" wrote in message
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Bob Hobden wrote:
"T r a v i s" wrote after "Bob Hobden" and "Sj" wrote
It's a problem for those who don't wish to be bothered
w/ yEnc, for whatever reason ... if the proper software
is used, the posting software automatically puts yEnc
in the header ... if not, the poster is using broken
software ... maybe people should let them know,
though some posters won't care ...

http://www.techsono.com/faq/yenc.html

Ah! So perhaps that's why I still can't see some yEnc posts despite
buying the necessary software to decode it automatically in OE.
Most annoying (or words to that effect!). :-)
Software to decode yEnc is free.

Yes there is free software but when I tried it you had to save the
photo to your PC and then do through a procedure to decode it, save
it again and then it might be viewable depending on the version of
yEnc that had been used. I do not save photos to my PC, even most of
my own are put straight to DVD unless I delete them first.
I paid for software that is supposed to work seamlessly with OE....we
shall see IDC!


I just tried a nother news reader, offered by a site that _promotes_
yEnc. Very enthusiastic, these people are. Think yEnc is the bees
knees.

The program is called NewzTools, and is one of the worst I've ever
seen. Can't specify how many headers to download, doesn't fetch the
ISP's newshost's news group list, doesn't sort headers, and - oh, I
don't know what else. I gave up after trying it on
alt.binaries.multimedia.rail. It supposedly d/l 300 headers, but less
than 100 showed on the screen. "Get Older Posts" behaved erratically,
sometimes adding just one header, sometimes added a dozen or so.

Well, it was free, so I guess it was worth what I paid for it. ;-)

I use Pan http://pan.rebelbase.com/ for multipart binaries and it is
free.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington