In article , J Three says...

On 7 Feb 2020 07:44:52 -0800, Miloch
wrote:

In article , Me359 says...

In reply to "Flatlander" who wrote the following:


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Thanks. I don't even bother getting the posting itself.

Dave:

They're virus and password protected files. Not worth the risk and
bandwidth.

Those posting have nothing to do with virusses or password protected files.
These posts have been done using
Yenc encoding. That's another kind of encoding than just attaching a picture to
a mail, and is used because
the post can be much more condensed and hacked into pieces, each section much
smaller in size than a JPG
picture. It used be used a lot more when we still had slow internet connections
and as far as I can see only
poster uses it here in the aviation group.
If you use a different newsgroup reader that is able to process Yenc encoded
files you can easily read those
posts. I normally use Thunderbird for my e-mails and newsgroups and that
application can't cope with Yenc.
I also use Newsleecher which easily deals with Yenc posting and can assure you
that posts a lot
of great aviation pictures. But I admit, I don't always switch to Newsleecher
and skip those files, it's just
too much work.





J Three posts through Giganews.com using Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186...

...the poster we're talking about uses Upload.UsNtX and show Usenet.Farm as the
'organization'



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I use PowerPost to post


Attached is what Newsguy shows...





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