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

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.
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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!

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

Well, Art, I don;'t mind yEnc posts, but theer is a problem which you
may not be aware of.

It's this:

There are many variations of yEnc and yEnc posting programs out there.
(The originator of yEnc released several versions of his format along
the way, which are mutually inconsistent.) This results in variations in
the headers to yEnc posts, which means that some newsreaders cannot
decode all yEnc posts. I've noticed for example that Thunderbird has no
problem with posts generated by PowerPost2002, but hiccups unpredictably
with others.

IMO it's this inconsistency that turns off a lot of people. That, and
the fact that Outlook cannot handle yEnc posts. Until yEnc is made an
ISO standard, and/or MS decides to support it, yEnc will be problem.

The compression issue is not a relevant issue anymore, as more and more
people are on broadband anyhow. Besides, the real waster of bandwidth is
spam, not binary posts on usenet.

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!

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