Clairbear wrote in news:Xns9967D801DDA8Fclairbear@
130.81.64.196:

"Don Pyeatt" wrote in
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"Clairbear" wrote in message
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I had no intent of attacking anyone, if I did, I apologize. Please
tell me the virtues of other newsreaders that make them easier to use
than OE.




Xnews can read all headers at once OE can't
It can decode and rejoin multiaprt posts without other steps
It can download an entire stream of posts where as You have to manually
read each and every one with OE
I could go on and on but Xnews and other similar to are just more
efficient and easier that OE
What would it harm for you to try one or more to see if they work
better

Of course if you are not willing to try you'll never know.

Like you, I use Xnews. The feature which sold me on it is that the fact
that a file is yENC is just not an issue any more. I don't have to
"convert" a received yENC file. I just download the file and Xnews shows me
the picture.

What I don't understand is why there seems to be an impression going around
that yENC files are humungous in comparison to other encoding used for
newsgroups. A file sent using the "normal" newsgroup encoding is generally
33 to 40% larger than the same file sent using yENC. For large, what about
the fellow a few days ago that posted some large BMP image files. If I
remember correctly, each image was a nine-part attachment. If he had used
yENC, they would only have been about six-part attachments. I personaly
think that a 30% saving in download time, bandwidth usage or whatever is
worthy of real consideration. I know that someone will then say they can't
get a yENC newsreader for their five-year-old computer. Five years in
computer history is like 50 years in the automotive industry. While it is
probably fairly easy to get upgrades for a 50-year-old Ford, it may not be
the same for Studebaker or some other model produced in relatively lower
volumes.