On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:11:41 -0400, Wolf Kirchmeir
wrote:

I've tried NewsRover and other cheap/free newsreaders, and none of them
is even as good as Thunderbird, which IMO is poor second-best to PMNews
(built for OS/2 and never ported to other platforms, unfortunately.)

Bah!
Well I have never noticed a single problem using agent. It has always
decoded any and all binaries, including yenc.

joevan wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:11:41 -0400, Wolf Kirchmeir
wrote:

I've tried NewsRover and other cheap/free newsreaders, and none of them
is even as good as Thunderbird, which IMO is poor second-best to PMNews
(built for OS/2 and never ported to other platforms, unfortunately.)

Bah!
Well I have never noticed a single problem using agent. It has always
decoded any and all binaries, including yenc.


True, that's not the problem with Agent. I just don't like the
interface. There were a couple of other issues, but I haven't bothered
to remember them.

The yEnc was unintentional. I recently started using News Rover and the
default is yEnc. I have not changed the settings to UU jpg.

Art

Make that I have NOW changed the settings to UU jpg. :-)

Art

Bill R wrote:
wrote:
It is not an odd format. If you use a news reader program, you will find
there are many benefits. The yEnc is actually a compression program
offering
less upload and download time. A news reader will allow you to decode it
automatically. A good one is News Rover. Do a Google search on News Rover
and you will learn a lot. It is cheap software and very good.

Art

Why should we switch to some news reader that might have some security
holes (I'm not saying News Rover does)? MOST of us want to use the
SECURE software we NOW have.

If people want to use yEnc that is there choice but a lot of us are not
going to bother to decode and look at their pictures.


I vote Thunderbird for email + news... Tis the stuff.. Handles the old
school yEnc encoding just fine.


And get off IE... Go get FireFox!

"3Putt from CoastalSouth Carolina" 3putt@PawleysIslandSC expounded:

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And get off IE... Go get FireFox!

Sure, and have fun finding and downloading all the plug-ins......

Why is that a problem? I'd rather be able to control my browsing
environment than to have everything wide open to all kinds of
malicious hackers. It's no problem to set Firefox up just the way you
want it.
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South of Boston, Massachusetts
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:04:07 -0400, Ann wrote:

"3Putt from CoastalSouth Carolina" 3putt@PawleysIslandSC expounded:

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And get off IE... Go get FireFox!

Sure, and have fun finding and downloading all the plug-ins......

Why is that a problem? I'd rather be able to control my browsing
environment than to have everything wide open to all kinds of
malicious hackers. It's no problem to set Firefox up just the way you
want it.
That is for sure and with a host file it is a sweet bit. I rarely use
explorer.