Frank wrote in
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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.



Well said Much better than I was able to put it